<p><strong>"Persuasively written and developing a challenging thesis based on the pervasiveness of historicised understanding in giving illusory meaning to our world, this book expresses a thought-experiment that needs to be experienced by all historians willing to reflect on the theoretical nature and social impact of their discipline."</strong></p><p>Jonathan Gorman, <em>Queen's University Belfast, UK</em></p><p><strong>"Martin L. Davies’s <i>How History Works </i>is the sharpest barrage of arrows directed at history in a long time. Davies is especially severe in his treatment of "public history," and of "normal" history in its "public" (regime-stabilizing) function... I much admire Davies’s wit, erudition, insouciant style, and, let it be said, hard work."</strong></p><p>Allan Megill, <em>University of Virginia, USA</em></p>

<p><strong>"Persuasively written and developing a challenging thesis based on the pervasiveness of historicised understanding in giving illusory meaning to our world, this book expresses a thought-experiment that needs to be experienced by all historians willing to reflect on the theoretical nature and social impact of their discipline."</strong></p><p>Jonathan Gorman, <em>Queen's University Belfast, UK</em></p><p><strong>"Martin L. Davies’s <i>How History Works </i>is the sharpest barrage of arrows directed at history in a long time. Davies is especially severe in his treatment of "public history," and of "normal" history in its "public" (regime-stabilizing) function... I much admire Davies’s wit, erudition, insouciant style, and, let it be said, hard work."</strong></p><p>Allan Megill, <em>University of Virginia, USA</em></p>