The Undivided Past : History Beyond Our Differences

ISBN-13: 9780141036908 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str.

David Cannadine

Opis

This title provides an impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognize the importance of writing history - from world-famous historian David Cannadine. The book is an agonized attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences - to create an 'us versus them'.

Recenzje

[Cannadine's] great strength is his lucid and crushing treatment of false prophets ... his case is urgent, as the news demonstrates every day ... Cannadine is frank in acknowledging that his is not the last word ... but he has uttered the first word and deserves exhaustive discussion. His plea is of enormous value. It should be heard in every think tank, madrassa, history workshop and sixth form and should guide the utterances of statesmen Hugh Brogan History Today

O autorze

Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, Visiting Professor at Oxford University and the editor of the National Dictionary of Biography. His major works include The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism, Class in Britain and Mellon: An American Life. He is the general editor of two major series: The Penguin History of Britain and The Penguin History of Europe. At the Summit of the World? is his volume in the former series.