![]() ![]() Even the book’s cover art, Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, sets up the first of many metaphors that Gaddis puts to work in order to communicate what he wants to say. He borrows these mainly from the worlds of art, literature, and popular culture. To make his discussion of theory easier to follow, he constantly uses illustrations, analogies, and quotations. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. A native of Texas, Gaddis made his reputation by writing landmark books about the Cold War. ![]() What do historians do? How do they conceive of and go about their work? And what's the value of it? In this series of eight lectures, originally delivered at Oxford during the 2000-01 school year, John Lewis Gaddis responds to these and other basic questions. The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past. ![]()
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