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Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged - Softcover

 
9780500293003: Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500293007 ISBN 13: 9780500293003
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2019

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Global histories tend to be written from the limited viewpoint of a single author and a single perspective, which results in an inevitable bias. In this book, however, twenty-eight different writers and scholars from around the world contribute, giving engaging, often passionate accounts of their own nation’s history.Histories of NationsHistories of Nations

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Peter Furtado is the editor of Histories of Nations, History Day by Day, and Great Cities Through Travelers' Eyes. He is the former editor of History Today, the world's leading history magazine.

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National history is a vital part of national self-definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer’s point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a ‘self-portrait’ of his or her native country, defining the characteristics that embody its sense of nationhood. The countries have been selected to represent every continent and every type of state, large and small, and together they make up two-thirds of the world’s population. They range from mature democracies to religious autocracies and one-party states, from countries with a venerable history to those who only came into being in the 20th century. In order to get to grips with the national and cultural differences that both enliven and endanger our world, we need above all to understand different national viewpoints – to read the always engaging and often passionate accounts given in this remarkable and unusual book. Original and thoughtprovoking, this is a crucial primer for the modern age.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500293007
ISBN 13 
9780500293003
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
Herausgeber
Furtado Peter
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