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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
