The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences - Softcover

Cannadine, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141036907 ISBN 13: 9780141036908

Verlag: Penguin, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

David Cannadine's impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of both equality and history

Great works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and provided intellectual justification for terrible political decisions. Again and again, categories have been found--religion, nation, class, gender, race, 'civilization'--that have sought to explain world events by fabricating some malevolent or helpless 'other'.

The Undivided Past is an agonised 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'. Is is above all an appeal to common humanity.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0141036907
• ISBN 13: 9780141036908
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352
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