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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New York :
Penguin Press,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- "Influence" in history
- Anachronism in history
- Narrative history
- The lessons of history
- Continuity in history
- History and the new historicism
- History as fiction
- History as high politics
- Microhistory
- Truth in history
- History versus political theory
- History without ideas
- History and heritage
- Comparative history
- Postmodern history
- Satirical history
- Multicultural history
- History and myth
- History as cultural criticism
- Race, class, gender and history writing
- Presentism in history.