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Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why It Matters - Hardcover

Mountain, David

 
9781785786624: Past Mistakes: How We Misinterpret History and Why It Matters
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1785786628 ISBN 13: 9781785786624
Verlag: Icon Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

<b>The stories we tell about our past matter. But those stories have been shaped by prejudice, hoaxes and misinterpretations that have whitewashed entire chapters of history, erased women and invented civilisations. Today history is often used to justify xenophobia, nationalism and inequality as we cling to grand origin stories and heroic tales of extraordinary men.<b> Exploring myths, mysteries and misconceptions about the past – from the legacies of figures like Pythagoras and Christopher Columbus, to the realities of life in the gun-toting Wild West, to the archaeological digs that have upset our understanding of the birth of civilisation – David Mountain reveals how ongoing revolutions in history and archaeology are shedding light on the truth.Full of adventures, and based on detailed research and interviews, Past Mistakes will make you reconsider your understanding of history – and of the world today.From the fall of Rome to the rise of the Wild West, David Mountain brings colour and perspective to historical mythmaking.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

David Mountain is a writer, speaker and editor, based in Edinburgh. After studying biology and geology at the University of Bristol he became a scientific editor at an environmental NGO, working across the savannahs of central Kenya and the gardens of suburban Java to tackle the problem of invasive species. He has since studied the politics of nationalism at the University of Edinburgh, devoting more time to exploring, and writing about, history. He is fascinated and infuriated in equal measure by history, politics and philosophy, and can't resist pointing out flaws and contradictions in how we think we understand the world.

David Mountain is a writer, speaker and editor, based in Edinburgh. After working as a scientific editor at an environmental NGO, he studied the politics of nationalism at the University of Edinburgh and now writes about history, politics and philosophy. This is his first book.

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Verlag
Icon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785786628
ISBN 13 
9781785786624
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
341
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