Why Bother with History?

<p>.<i> Why Bother With History? <br> argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Examining the motivations of past historians the author rejects the ancient aspiration to a 'history for its own sake' and argues that historians' importance lies in their own adoption of a moral standpoint from which a story of the past can be told that facilitates the attainment of a future we desire. <br> Inevitably controversial in that it challenges many of the assumptions of modernist history this is an interdisciplinary book which draws in particular on psychology and literature. </i></p>