The purpose of the past : reflections on the uses of history /

History is to society what memory is to the individual: without it, we don't know who we are, and we can't make wise decisions about where we should be going. But while the nature of memory is a constant, the nature of history has changed radically over the past forty years, for good but a...

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Main Author: Wood, Gordon S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
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