Writing history in the global era / Lynn Hunt.
Writing history in the global era / Lynn Hunt.
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
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G 2016/173
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English
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Physical content
viii, 196 pages ; 21 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
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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Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2015.
Edition
[First Norton paperback edition].
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2015.
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Summary
"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 that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers,...
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Writing history in the global era / Lynn Hunt.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2014.
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G 2016/173
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74VKzDRLBb0y
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzDRLBb0y
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ISBN
0393351173 paperback
9780393351170 paperback
DDC
907.2
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991023339629702626
