The Uses and Abuses of History. Margaret MacMillan
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781846682100 (184668210X)
Publish date: March 1st 2010
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Edition language: English
Series: Modern Library Chronicles 6 (#31)
Mislead by the cover copy. Reading the book jacket would lead you to believe that this will be a sort of history of who has misquoted and misused history, and how and to what purposes. There is a bit of that, a very little bit. But it's really more of a lengthy essay on the very general whys and how...
mp3 workThis was very interesting and dangerous - as dangerous as walking through a mine field on magnetic stilts, in the fog, AND wearing sunglasses over blind eyes.YOU try and define history.:O)
This book is especially timely given the proposed changes to history textbooks by the Texas Commission on Education that would increase the visibility of Newt Gingrinch and Phyllis Schlafly at the expense of Thurgood Marshall. (This problem is not new. Frances Fitzgerald wrote a terrific book sever...
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