History: Remembered, Recovered, Invented. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Abstract

How is history used? What are the ways history is used? In this book review, Nihat Kahveci analyzes how Bernard Lewis’s History: Remembered, Recovered, Invented seeks the answers to these important questions. Lewis states in the preface that the historian sometimes “needs to leave his period, his area, and his topic, and take a boarder look at the nature of his vocation and discipline”. The book is such reflection on nature of historical knowledge and discipline of history. Organizing different examples of historical events, the book takes a broad look at the discipline of history. How is history used? What are the ways history is used? Bernard Lewis’s History: Remembered, Recovered, Invented seeks the answers to these important questions. Lewis states in the preface that the historian sometimes “needs to leave his period, his area, and his topic, and take a boarder look at the nature of his vocation and discipline”. This book is such reflection on nature of historical knowledge and discipline of history. Organizing different examples of historical events he takes a broad look at the discipline of history

Keywords

• History
• Remembered
• Recovered