Writing history in the global era /

"With history in ferment, leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that 'history is written by the winners.' Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but tha...

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Main Author: Hunt, Lynn, 1945- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction : History's changing fortunes -- The rise and fall of cultural theories -- The challenge of globalization -- Rethinking society and the self -- New purposes, new paradigms. 
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