A secondary pleasure with The Landscape of History (see my earlier comments) is its instructive, encompassing set of references, from which I have extracted two for onward reading. My guiding criteria were that each should be relatively recent and usable as a ‘how to’ (beyond its main purpose):
- Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals edited by Niall Ferguson – because Ferguson is another of my hero historians
- Historians’ Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought by David Hackett Fischer – published in 1970, this fails the first criterion but is irresistible