Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
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16.04.2003
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Hill and WangSeitenzahl
257 (Printausgabe)
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Englisch
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9781429923927
The author of The Story of American Freedom reflects on the importance of history in contemporary society through a series of essays.
" Who Owns History? introduces readers to one of the country's finest historians, Eric Foner, writing about issues more critical to American public life today than ever before." -Joyce Appleby, UCLA
"History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do."
Rarely has Baldwin's insight been more forcefully confirmed than during the past few decades. History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, or reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it?
In W ho Owns History?, Eric Foner proposes his answer to these and other questions about the historian's relationship to the world of the past and future. He reconsiders his own earlier ideas and those of the pathbreaking Richard Hofstadter. He also examines international changes during the past two decades-globalization, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa-and their effects on historical consciousness. He concludes with considerations of the enduring, but often misunderstood, legacies of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction.
This is a provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history-or should.
"Eric Foner is rightly ranked among our era's most distinguished historians. In Who Owns History? he takes on some of the most contentious issues in the American past while candidly describing his own intellectual journeys, and often brilliantly illuminating the nature of the historian's craft." -David M. Kennedy, Stanford University
"One of America's preeminent historians does his profession proud. . . . These writings help to debunk the idea that history is irrelevant in the 21st century." - Publishers Weekly
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