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The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the PastWhat is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while
What is history and why should we study it? Is there such a thing as historical truth? Is history a science? One of the most accomplished historians at work today, John Lewis Gaddis, answers these and other questions in this short, witty, and humane book. The Landscape of History provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today. Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realize, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate. In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists. Their approaches parallel, in intriguing ways, the new sciences of chaos, complexity, and criticality. They don't much resemble what happens in the social sciences, where the pursuit of independent variables functioning with static systems seems increasingly divorced from the world as we know it. So who's really being scientific and who isn't? This question too is one Gaddis explores, in ways that are certain to spark interdisciplinary controversy. Written in the tradition of Marc Bloch and E.H. Carr, The Landscape of History is at once an engaging introduction to the historical method for beginners, a powerful reaffirmation of it for practitioners, a startling challenge to social scientists, and an effective skewering of post-modernist claims that we can't know anything at all about the past. It will be essential reading for anyone who reads, writes, teaches, or cares about history.Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 04/08/2004
ISBN: 9780195171570
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.40w x 0.43d
Review Citations: New York Times 08/15/2004 pg. 16
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★★★★★ 5
Love these for beach foot protection!!
Size: 10-11 Women/9-10 Men, Color: Black-w001
These water shoes were perfect for our cruise to Grand Turk. The beach was a little rocky once in the water & the bottom of these shoes protected our feet and made it comfortable they dry quickly they are lightweight and easy to pack and carry in a beach bag. I bought two pair of the black one for me one for my husband, and he even wore them which was shocking into me and loved them.!!!! they don’t have walking support so they’re definitely something that you bring with you put on your feet before you enter like water where you can’t see the bottom or rocks/coral and they totally protect your foot on the bottom
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Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2026
★★★★★ 3
I received someone else’s returned product
Size: 7-8 Women/6-7 Men, Color: Sunset
The inner product packaging was already cut open and not sealed, and there was debris inside the socks: clear indicators that the pair I received was someone else’s return. They also run big and are very wide in the toe area. My daughter’s pair also ran big, but at least hers were sealed. Overall quality is a bit flimsy, so we’ll see how long they last.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Decent water shoe
Size: 10-11 Women/9-10 Men, Color: N-laser Stripe
I have to admit, I was a bit skeptical about the quality of and comfort of these shoes because of the cheap price. However, I really do like them. They stay on my feet, are comfortably and non-binding, which is saying something because my feet have been pounded over the years. They even did well when I had to cross some rocks, trekking back to the kayak. Definitely a gods water shoe for a good price.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Perfect!!!
Size: 7-8 Women/6-7 Men, Color: Black-w001
I absolutely love these water shoes. I wear them around the house, getting out of shower, even outside.
I’m a stroke survivor that was paralyzed. One of the biggest hurdles of walking again is feeling the ground . One day I thought water shoes would work. After trying a few types I fell in love with these. So easy to put on. Comfortable. Feels one nothing on . I’m buying in multiple colors . Love love love these. Game changer for someone learning to walk again. My feet don’t sweat in them . I wear with and without socks . Easy to wash quick to wrong put and dry. Non slip.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Good starter
Style: KIT
The chemicals are 5 stars, because the Chemical Guys make great and effective products. And they always smell good, but the taste doesn’t match the smell. I wish it came with other chemicals in the kit. But honestly go buy them one by one and get what you need.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2026