The Landscape of History : How Historians Map the Past

The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past provides a searching look at the historian's craft, as well as a strong argument for why a historical consciousness should matter to us today.

John Lewis Gaddis points out that while the historical method is more sophisticated than most historians realise, it doesn't require unintelligible prose to explain. Like cartographers mapping landscapes, historians represent what they can never replicate.

In doing so, they combine the techniques of artists, geologists, paleontologists, and evolutionary biologists.