An Award-winning Author Reconsiders The Role Of Historians In Political Debate. 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 Satiaâs 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. Timeâs 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, Satiaâs Is An Urgent Moral Voice.
Categories:
- Politics & Social Sciences
- Politics & Government
- International & World Politics
- European
- International & World Politics
- Politics & Government
Publisher : Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Author : Satia, Priya
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2020-10-20
Number Of Pages : 384
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0674248376
ISBN-13 : 9780674248373
Item weight : 1.64 lb
Dimensions : 1.65 in x 6.3 in x 9.61 in
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