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Time's monster : how history makes history / Priya Satia.
LIBRA D13 .S3625 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Satia, Priya, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography.
- Imperialism--Historiography.
- Imperialism.
- Colonies.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Historiography.
- Great Britain.
- British colonies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Time's Monster demonstrates the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities, debates about reparations, and the crisis in the humanities, Satia's is an urgent moral voice"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. The Progress of War
- 2. Progress as Penance
- 3. Progress of Elimination
- 4. The Redemption of Progress
- 5. The Division of Progress
- 6. The Past and Future of History.
- Notes:
- "Published in the United Kingdom as Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd., a Penguin Random House Company." -- title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674248373
- 0674248376
- OCLC:
- 1151894978
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