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by: Peter Mandler
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9781861974693
ISBN: 1861974698
Label: Profile Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Profile Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 2002-12
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 3142495
Studio: Profile Books Ltd
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
It is still too casually assumed that the 'point' of history is to tell us 'who we are' and 'where we come from'. History and National Life, by a historian whose last book The Fall and Rise of the Stately Home was hailed both by historians and general reveiwersas 'superb', 'wonderful', splendid', 'fascinating' and 'enthralling', argues that history is less directly 'useful', but also richer than that. This brilliant study concludes with some reflections on current debates about English and British identity, on how much (or how little) history can help us resolve them, and on what deeper purposes history might serve instead.
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