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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Guldi, Jo 1978- author (author), Armitage, David, 1965- author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2014.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645337506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.