What is History?: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures Delivered in The University of Cambridge, January-March, 1961

"A distinguished historian, Professor Edward Hallett Carr, seeks to reconcile the doctrine of progress with the present state of the world in the light of modern concepts of determinism, accident, causation, objectivity, and the role of the individual in history." "...he not only develops a distinctly modern and viable approach to the study of history, and to the other social sciences, but demonstrates that the way man sees history conditions his outlook on his own time and has an impact on his willingness and his ability to cope with the great questions concerning his future."