The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences - Hardcover

Cannadine, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 184614132X ISBN 13: 9781846141324

Verlag: Allen Lane, 2013

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Críticas:

Highly intelligent, stimulating, occasionally provocative and enormous fun to read (Philip Ziegler Spectator BOOKS OF THE YEAR)

An impassioned plea ... for an understanding of the past that finds its focus in our age-old conversations and collaborations, rather than in conflict ... The Undivided Past should earn applause (Boyd Tonkin Independent)

Sir David Cannadine is a distinguished historian; his new book ... 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)

This collection winningly combines history, politics, and contemporary culture in a refreshingly optimistic manner (Tristram Hunt BBC History Magazine)

A plea for us to stop seeing the past in terms of conflict rather than communality (Melissa Katsoulis Telegraph)

Elegantly written and stimulating (David Priestland Guardian)

[Cannadine's] main purpose is to exhort us to overcome our differences ... to concentrate on exploring what brings us together (Mark Mazower Financial Times)

Ambitious and wide-ranging ... an interesting and informative read (Good Book Review)

Cannadine writes as engagingly and fluently as ever (Richard Overy New Statesman)

Known for a streak of iconoclastic originality ... Cannadine is always worth reading (Jeffrey Collins Times Literary Supplement)

Reseña del editor:

An impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of writing history - from world-famous historian David Cannadine

David Cannadine is one of Britain's most distinguished historians and this is his masterpiece. 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'. 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 the intellectual backing and justification for terrible political decisions. Again and again, categories have been found--whether religion, nation, class, gender, race or 'civilization'--that have sought to explain world events by fabricating some malevolent or helpless 'other'.

This book is above all an appeal to common humanity. We seem doomed always to fall (most recently in the wake of 9/11) into the 'us versus them' trap, but there is no reason why the history we read and write should not be much better than this and describe what we all have in common rather than what divides us.

About the author:

Sir David Cannadine is Chair of the National Portrait Gallery, Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and General Editor of the Penguin History of Europe and Penguin History of Britain. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Chair of the Blue Plaques Committee. His major books include The Rise and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Ornamentalism and Mellon: A Life. He is currently writing the Penguin History of Victorian Britain. He has previously taught at Cambridge, Columbia and London universities.

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• Verlag: Allen Lane
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 184614132X
• ISBN 13: 9781846141324
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352