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Biographical note
Donald Bloxham has taught at Edinburgh University since 2001. He was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2007 and given the established Richard Pares Chair of History in 2011. Beyond his work on the history and philosophy of the discipline of history, he is a specialist in the study of genocide and the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. His book, The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford, 2005), won the Raphael Lemkin Prize for genocide scholarship. He has also been a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and is currently on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.On the whole, Why History? is a marvel of both clarity and erudition...the footnotes and bibliography...are treasure troves and I found myself repeatedly stopping to take note of an essay or monograph I'd not run across.
Professor Daniel Woolf, Reviews in History
Bloxham's study is outstanding in its grasp of two and a half Millennia of historiography, and he traces his subject through time and space seemingly effortlessly ... Why History? is a remarkable contribution to the History of historical writing that transcends traditional accounts
Konrad Hauber, German Historical Institute London Bulletin