The History Question
Who owns the past?
In The History Question, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the \objective record of achievement\ that the Prime Minister has called for? For Clendinnen, historians cannot be the midwives of national identity and also be true to their profession: history cannot do the work of myth.Clendinnen illuminates the ways in which history, myth and fiction differ from one another, and why the differences are important. In discussing what good history looks like, she pays tribute to the human need for sto…
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- ISBN: 978-1-86395-254-5
- EAN: 9781863952545
- Produktnummer: 39269038
- Verlag: Quarterly Essay
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Masse: H24.4 cm x B17.0 cm x D0.6 cm 222 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 222
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