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The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences
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David Cannadine’s impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of both equality and historyGreat 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.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.258 kg |
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| Dimensions | 2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 352 |
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| Year Published | 2014-4-3 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0141036907 |
| 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 has previously taught at Cambridge, Columbia and London universities. |
[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 |
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| Other text | Cannadine marshals modern scholarship, a sure historical sweep, and a confident polemic … Quite rightly, Cannadine denounces the collective, warring identities conjured up by [neoconservative scholars] and again highlights a broader history of cultural exchange … this collection winningly combines history, politics, and contemporary culture in a refreshingly optimistic manner |
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