Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History by MacMillan, Margaret
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History by MacMillan, Margaret

Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History

Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows...
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Author: Margaret MacMillan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History by MacMillan, Margaret

Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History

$25.60
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History by MacMillan, Margaret

Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History

$25.60
Author: Margaret MacMillan
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan explores here the many ways in which history affects us all. She shows how a deeper engagement with history, both as individuals and in the sphere of public debate, can help us understand ourselves and the world better. But she also warns that history can be misused and lead to misunderstanding. History is used to justify religious movements and political campaigns alike. Dictators may suppress history because it undermines their ideas, agendas, or claims to absolute authority. Nationalists may tell false, one-sided, or misleading stories about the past. Political leaders might mobilize their people by telling lies. It is imperative that we have an understanding of the past and avoid these and other common traps in thinking to which many fall prey. This brilliantly reasoned work, alive with incident and figures both great and infamous, will compel us to examine history anew--and skillfully illuminates why it is important to treat the past with care.

Author: Margaret MacMillan
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 07/13/2010
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.22w x 0.54d
ISBN: 9780812979961


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 08/22/2010 pg. 20

About the Author
Margaret MacMillan is the author of Paris 1919, Nixon and Mao, and Women of the Raj. Paris 1919 won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, a Silver Medal for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Governor-General's prize for nonfiction, and it was selected by the editors of The New York Times as one of the ten best books of the year. A past provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, MacMillan is the warden of St. Antony's College at Oxford University.
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