Books like What is history?

What is history? by Edward Hallet Carr reads as analytical, philosophical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Apologie pour l'histoire ou Métier d'historien

Marc Bloch · 1949

Both explore historiography & truth

69% genome match

In Defence of History

Richard J. Evans · 1997

Both explore historiography & objectivity

77% genome match

On history

Eric Hobsbawm · 1997

Both explore historiography & objectivity

72% genome match

After the fact

James West Davidson · 1981

Both explore interpretation & historiography

69% genome match

The death of the past

J. H. Plumb · 1969

Both explore historiography & interpretation

73% genome match

The Landscape of History

John Lewis Gaddis · 2002

Both explore historiography & truth

68% genome match

Medieval Europe

C. Warren (Charles Warren) Hollister · 1964

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

John the Fearless

Richard Vaughan · 1966

Same nonfiction feel

57% genome match

The uses and abuses of history

Margaret Olwen Macmillan · 2008

Both explore historiography & truth

56% genome match

Medieval people

Eileen Edna Power · 1924

Same nonfiction feel

53% genome match

The principles of art

R. G. Collingwood · 1656

Same nonfiction feel

58% genome match

Western Europe in the Middle Ages, 300-1475

Tierney, Brian. · 1970

Same nonfiction feel

55% genome match