Global histories tend to be written from the narrow viewpoint of asingle author and a single perspective, with the inevitable bias that itentails. But in this thought-provoking collection, twenty-eight writersand scholars give engaging, often passionate accounts of their ownnation’s history. The countries have been selected to represent everycontinent and every type of state: large and small; mature democraciesand religious autocracies; states that have existed for thousands of yearsand those born as recently as the twentieth century. Together they containtwo-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 crucialrole in legitimizing three thousand years of imperial authority. “Historywars” over the content of textbooks rage in countries as diverse asAustralia, Russia, and Japan. Some countries, such as Iran or Egypt, areblessed—or cursed—with a glorious ancient history that the presentcannot equal; others, such as Germany, must find ways of approachingand reconciling the pain of the recent past.
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Immaculately edited and superbly illustrated --History Today
Bold and intriguing --BBC History Magazine
What a wonderful idea ... Peter Furtado is to be applauded for assembling such an impressive bunch of contributors ... If you want to gain a sense of what it means to be Greek, French, German, Egyptian or Ghanaian and of how the lessons of the past are always in flux and a constant source of debate then you could do a lot worse than making the excellent Histories of Nations your first port of call. --Geographical Magazine
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- EditoreThames & Hudson
- Data di pubblicazione2012
- ISBN 10 0500251819
- ISBN 13 9780500251812
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine320
- RedattoreFurtado Peter
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