The history manifesto /

How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term history - so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present?...

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Bibliografiska uppgifter
Huvudupphovsmän: Guldi, Jo (Joanna), 1978- (Författare, medförfattare), Armitage, David, 1965- (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Licensed eBooks
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Länkar:https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781139923880/type/BOOK
Innehållsförteckning:
  • Introduction: The Bonfire of the Humanities?
  • Going Forward by Looking Back : the Rise of the Longue Durée
  • The Short Past : or, The Retreat of the Longue Durée
  • The Long and the Short : Climate Change, Governance and Inequality since the 1970s
  • Big Questions, Big Data
  • Conclusion: The Public Future of the Past.