What Is History For?: Analysing welfare policy and practice (What Is It For?) - Softcover

Gildea, Robert

 
9781529230512: What Is History For?: Analysing welfare policy and practice (What Is It For?)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529230519 ISBN 13: 9781529230512
Verlag: Bristol University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

“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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Gildea is Professor Emeritus of Modern History at the University of Oxford, and a specialist on French and European history in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2003 he won the Wolfson Prize for History.

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Verlag
Bristol University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1529230519
ISBN 13 
9781529230512
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
182
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