Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is History For?Condition: NewEAN: 9781529230512ISBN: 9781529230512Publisher: Bristol University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/26/2024Description: “History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake news, so how can we tell good history from bad? How can history be critical, learning from the past and righting wrongs, rather than divisive, such as riding roughshod over the rights of others? In this passionately argued book, Gildea suggests that the more people who really understand what good history entails, the more likely history is to triumph over myth. He sees positive signs in public history, citizen historians and community projects, among other developments. And he debunks claims that ‘you cannot rewrite history’, arguing that good history that’s attuned to its times must be rewritten time and again.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmAuthor: Robert GildeaGenre: HistoryBook Series: What Is It For?Release Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Is History For?
Title: What Is History For?
EAN: 9781529230512
ISBN: 9781529230512
Release Date: 03/26/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 182 Pages
Publication Name: What Is History For?
Language: English
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2024
Subject: Historiography, General, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), World
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 6 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Robert Gildea
Subject Area: History
Item Width: 5 in
Series: What Is It For? Ser.
Format: Uk- a Format Paperback
