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What Is History For?
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What Is History For?
ISBN
9781529230536
9781529230512
Publication
Bristol University Press 2024
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 0000
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
1 online resource (182 pages).
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Summary
Gildea suggests that the more people who really understand what good history entails, the more likely history is to triumph over myth. He sees positive signs in public history, citizen historians and community projects, debunking claims that 'you cannot rewrite history', arguing that good history that's attuned to its times must be rewritten.
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Project MUSE complete collection 2024.
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Books / Online
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Undetermined
Added to Catalog
March 01, 2024
Contents
Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Figures and Boxes
Preface: Snails in the Tank
1. Where Are We Now?
Myth-making and myth-busting
Controlling the narrative
History and identity
2. How Did We Get Here?
Appealing to the mythical past
Historians and myth
History and power: the struggle for legitimacy
Whose history is it anyway? History and identity
3. Where Do We Go From Here?
Working through
Who writes history?
Notes
Further Reading
Index
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