Gaddis writes, “The question I want to explore here, and the best place to start with is the old debate whether history is, or isn’t, a science.” Surely, this discussion seems to be never-ending, and is one topic that may be never agreed upon or resolved. However, he engages in the often debated dialogue regarding history as a science and focuses on the considering science as history. He explores the parallels and variances amid historical inquiry and natural science. He is concerned with the problems historians encounter dealing with the philosophy history in academia. In the book, he sketches a powerful and succinct interpretation of subjects such as the commonalities in science and history and the essence of historical consciousness. Gaddis - The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the PastĢ0171_HIST_6030_01_1: Graduate HistoriographyĪccredited historian John Lewis Gaddis augments the previous offerings by E.H Carr and Marc Bloch in his book The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past.
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