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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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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | Cover image Book review (H-Net) Book review (H-Net) https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/history-manifesto/AC1A1EC711AE91A4F9004E7582D79AFD |
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.