What Is History For?

by Robert Gildea

"History", suggests Robert Gildea, "is a battlefield." Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake news, so how can we tell good history from bad? How can history be critical, learning from the past and righting wrongs, rather than divisive, such as riding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529230519
• ISBN13: 9781529230512
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"