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The History Manifesto

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Guldi, Jo, Armitage, David·2014·Cambridge University Press eBooks
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How should historians speak truth to power – and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history – especially long-term history – so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which gave rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society. Leading historians Jo Guldi and David Armitage identify a recent shift back to longer-term narratives, following many decades of increasing specialisation, which they argue is vital for the future of historical scholarship and how it is communicated. This provocative and thoughtful book makes an important intervention in the debate about the role of history and the humanities in a digital age. It will provoke discussion among policymakers, activists and entrepreneurs as well as ordinary listeners, viewers, readers, students and teachers. This title is also available as Open Access.

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  • Guldi and Armitage (2014) argue that no historian is likely to write well about the 'short past.'

    “The HistoryManifesto (2014),pennedbyGuldiandArmitage,whichsimilarlyarguesthatno historian is likely to write well about the ' short past. '”

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    Chapter 2 criticizes the Short Past’s narrow time horizons, but it also says that historians working in that genre produced monographs of “exceptional sophistication.” It praises micro-historians’ skill with evidence rather than arguing that historians are unlikely to write well about the Short Past. No page number is available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • This same principle of writing about the distant past is all too often ignored by modern history departments in Europe, America and abroad, chiefly for financial reasons.

    “this same principle is all too often ignored by modern history departments in Europe, America and abroad, chiefly for financial reasons.”

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    The Introduction and Chapter 2 (pages not provided) say that historians moved away from long-range work and that narrow time-scales came to dominate university training. Chapter 2 also describes a saturated academic job market, but the passages do not establish that history departments neglected the distant past chiefly for financial reasons. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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  • Grand narratives may be out of fashion in academia, but the over-specialization and micro-scale preferred by many of today's professional historians risks society's contempt, insofar as today's history departments have thereby abnegated their responsibilities to address the big questions.

    “Grand narratives may be out of fashion in academia, as Guldi and Armitage point out, but the over-specialization and micro-scale preferred by many of today ' s professional historians risks society ' s contempt, insofar as today ' s history departments have thereby, oddly enough, abnegated their responsibilities to address the big questions”

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