Why History Matters

ISBN-13: 9781137604071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 168 str.

John Tosh

Opis

Including a range of contemporary examples from Brexit to child sexual abuse to the impact of the internet, this is an important and practical introduction for all students of history.Inspiring and empowering, this book provides both students and general readers with a stimulating and practical rationale for the study of history.

Spis treści

Preface Prologue: Britain in Iraq Contending Histories Other Worlds Becoming Ourselves Parallels in the Past The Family in Crisis: a Case-Study History Goes Public The Citizen's Resource Conclusion Postscript: British Historians and Brexit Notes Select Bibliography.

O autorze

John Tosh is Professor of History at the University of Roehampton, UK, Visiting Professor at Birkbeck University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is well known for his introductory text The Pursuit of History (6^th edition, 2015). He has  also published widely on the history of masculinities in Britain, notably A Man’s Place: Masculinity and the Middle-Class Home in Victorian England (2007).