# What Is History?

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- Book: [What is History?](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-hallett-carr/what-is-history) ([What is History?.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-hallett-carr/what-is-history.md))
- Authors: [Edward Hallett Carr](https://www.bookquiver.com/edward-hallett-carr)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-03-9470-391-6
- Pages: 224
- Published: 1967-10-12
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Who is to say how things really were? In formulating a modern answer to the question 'What is History?' Professor Carr shows that the 'facts' of history are simply those which historians have selected...