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The history manifesto/

"How should historians speak truth to power--and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history--especially long-term history--so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted presen...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guldi, Jo
Other Authors: Armitage, David
Format: Printed Book
Published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
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Online Access:https://www.amazon.com/History-Manifesto-Jo-Guldi/dp/110743243X#reader_110743243X
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Bonfire of the Humanities?
  • Going Forward by Looking Back : the Rise of the Longue Durée
  • The Short Past : or, The Retreat of the Longue Durée
  • The Long and the Short : Climate Change, Governance and Inequality since the 1970s
  • Big Questions, Big Data
  • Conclusion: The Public Future of the Past.