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| Time’s Monsters: How History Makes History | ||
| 作者 | Satia, Priya (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2020.10.20 |
| 頁次 | 384 |
| 出版者 | Harvard University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.hup.harvard.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Priya Satia is the award-winning author of Spies in Arabia and Empire of Guns. The Raymond A. Spruance Professor of International History and Professor of British History at Stanford University, she has written for Financial Times, The Nation, Time, the Washington Post, and other outlets. |
| 摘要 | For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean was consolidated. While they described the development of imperial governance, rebellions were brutally crushed. As they reimagined empire during the two world wars, decolonization was compromised. Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed. Satia makes clear that historical imagination played a significant role in the unfolding of empire. History emerged as a mode of ethics in the modern period, endowing historians from John Stuart Mill to Winston Churchill with outsized policymaking power. At key moments in Satia’s telling, we find Britons warding off guilty conscience by recourse to particular notions of history, especially those that spotlighted great men helpless before the will of Providence. Braided with this story is an account of alternative visions articulated by anticolonial thinkers such as William Blake, Mahatma Gandhi, and E. P. Thompson. By the mid-twentieth century, their approaches had reshaped the discipline of history and the ethics that came with it. Time’s Monster demonstrates the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities, debates about reparations, and the crisis in the humanities, Satia’s is an urgent moral voice. |
| 目次 | Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction 1. The Progress of War 2. Progress as Penance 3. Progress of Elimination 4. The Redemption of Progress 5. The Division of Progress 6. The Past and Future of History Notes Acknowledgments Index |
| ISBN | 9780674248373 (hc); 9780674292178 (pbk) |
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| 點閱次數 | 17 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.04.28 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.04.28 |
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