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This can be a revised 3rd variation of the best-selling advent to the perform of heritage. in view that first ebook in 1990, John Tosh's groundbreaking consultant to the examine of heritage has helped readers locate their means round tricky and occasionally debatable themes. famous for its readability, breadth and even-handedness, usual revision of the textual content has ensured it is still thoroughly updated. truly based all through to guide the reader steadily throughout the matters, the book's really apt, non-polemical technique makes it a competent and depended on source. For readers drawn to historiography.
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As a memory-bank of what is unfamiliar or alien, history constitutes our most important cultural resource. It offers a means – imperfect but indispensable – of entering into the kind of experience that is simply not possible in our own lives. Our sense of the heights to which human beings can attain, and the depths to which they may sink, the resourcefulness they may show in a crisis, the sensitivity they can show in responding to each other’s needs – all these are nourished by knowing what has been thought and done in the very different contexts of the past.
26. H. H. , Macmillan, 1961. 27. H. Butterfield, The Englishman and his History, Cambridge University Press, 1944. 28. Theodore Zeldin, ‘After Braudel’, The Listener, 5 November 1981, p. 542. 29. ), People’s History and Socialist Theory, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981, p. 8. 30. Eric M. C. ), Victorian Values, British Academy, 1992. 31. Raphael Samuel, ‘Unofficial knowledge’, in his Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture, Verso, 1994, pp. 3–39. ’ The answers have ranged from Henry Ford’s celebrated aphorism ‘history is bunk’ to the belief that history holds the clue to human destiny.
Historians do not see the process of European expansion merely as an expression of maritime flair and technical superiority. They link it to economic structures, patterns of consumption and international relations – and increasingly to codes of masculinity and constructions of racial difference as well. All too little of this kind of contextualization was applied by the media to the escalation of conflict in the Gulf. For most commentators it was hardly seen outside the frame of international law and the politics of oil.