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Carregando... Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged (original: 2012; edição: 2017)de Peter Furtado (Autor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Korte geschiedenis van 28 landen geschreven door een lokale historicus. Het boek is een verfrissende kijk op de geschiedenis vanuit een nationaal perspectief, i.e. de manier hoe een ieder geschiedenis op school voorgeschoteld krijgen. Het valt vooral op dat landen geen logische (historische) eenheden zijn: Landen bestaan niet lang; en landen (en hun geschiedenis) zijn verzinsels van mensen. De wereld van de mensen is een chaos. It was ok I guess. Several of the entries were more concerned about how that particular country saw its own past rather than a straightforward telling of that history and each one was written by a different author so you get a real mixed bag. After reading twenty-eight in such short order you come away with a vague depressing feeling of how unstable the world is and how you reap what you sow. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
"Global histories tend to be written from the narrow viewpoint of a single author and a single perspective, with the inevitable bias that it entails. But in this thought-provoking collection, twenty-eight writers and scholars give engaging, often passionate accounts of their own nation's history.The countries have been selected to represent every continent and every type of state: large and small; mature democracies and religious autocracies; states that have existed for thousands of years and those born as recently as the twentieth century.Together they contain two-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 crucial role in legitimizing three thousand years of imperial authority. "History wars" over the content of textbooks rage in countries as diverse as Australia, Russia, and Japan. Some countries, such as Iran or Egypt, are blessed--or cursed--with a glorious ancient history that the present cannot equal; others, such as Germany, must find ways of approaching and reconciling the pain of the recent past."--Publisher's website. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Each History varying in length from 8 to 14 pages & therefore necessarily limited detail & almost no perspective; plus 202 illustrations across the 303 pages: There's also a very helpful Further Reading List & an Index. ( )