The histories of nations: how their identities were forged

The histories of nations: how their identities were forged

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Twenty-eight intimate and unconventional autobiographies of the nation/state, told by historians from their respective countries.Global histories tend to be written from the narrow viewpoint of a single author and a single perspective, with the inevitable bias that it entails. But in this thought-provoking collection, twenty-eight writers and scholars give engaging, often passionate accounts of their own nation's history. The countries have been selected to represent every continent and every type of state: large and small; mature democracies and religious autocracies; states that have existed for thousands of years and those born as recently as the twentieth century. Together they contain two-thirds of the world's population. In the United States, for example, the myth of the nation's "historylessness" remains strong, but in China history is seen to play a crucial role in legitimizing three thousand years of imperial authority. "History wars" over the content of textbooks rage...
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Name of the Author
Furtado
Peter
Language
English
ISBN
9780500772348
Release date
2012

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The histories of nations: how their identities were forged

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