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Reckoning with History: Essays on Uses of the Past

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Sep 2024
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9 × 0.94 × 6 in
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Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history in pasts both distant and near.

Reckoning with History begins by examining uses of the past in early modern Britain, a period in which print, religious reformation, and political conflict transformed historical culture. Later essays offer insights into personal, popular, professional, and sometimes deeply political uses of the past in other times and places, helping to contextualize our own moments in historical writing and to link the early and post-modern periods. Throughout, contributors respond to the writings of Daniel Woolf, whose scholarship illuminates the history of the historical discipline and the social circulation of the past.

Covering subjects such as early archival practices, memories of historic plagues, and the type of commemorations needed to revitalize liberal democracies, Reckoning with History contextualizes the uses of the past today.

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PublisherMcGill-Queen's University Press
PublishedSep 3, 2024
ISBN-100228022428
ISBN-139780228022428
Hardcover270.0 pages
LanguageEnglish
Dimensions9 × 0.94 × 6 in
Weight1 lb

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