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Why Bother with History?

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Why Bother with History?

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In the wake of heated debates on the nature of history, Why Bother With History?' considers its very purpose: why should we bother with it anyway? At a time when the subject is under threat both from political modernisers' and from some postmodernist theorists, Beverley Southgate argues for an increasingly important role for a revitalised historical study. Rejecting ancient and modern aspirations to a history for its own sake' produced by supposedly objective and attached authors, Southgate proposes rather that historians' importance lies in their own moral standpoint. Their story of the past facilitates the future we desire. Focusing on history's relationship with: Psychology Politics and Power Religion Education Postmodernity and using global examples from the ancient world to the present, this book is timely and inevitably controversial, challenging many of the assumptions of modernist history. Beverley Southgate is Reader Emeritus, University of Hertfordshire. His many publications include History: What and Why?' (1996).
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
200
Release Date:
2000-11-28
Publication Date:
2000-11-28
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0582423902
ISBN13:
9780582423909
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[email protected]
Weight:
313 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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