The Undivided Past : History Beyond Our Differences Paperback / softback
by David Cannadine
Paperback / softback
- Information
Description
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.
Information
-
In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, none
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:03/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141036908
Other Formats
- EPUB from £5.99
Information
-
In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:352 pages, none
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:03/04/2014
- Category:
- ISBN:9780141036908