Time's monster : how history makes history

Author(s)

• Satia, Priya

Bibliographic Information

Time's monster : how history makes history

Priya Satia

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020

• : hardcover

Note

Simultaneously published in the United Kingdom by Penguin Books Ltd., a Penguin Random House Company

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: 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. -- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

• The Progress of war
• Progress as penance
• Progress of elimination
• The redemption of progress
• The division of progress
• The past and future of history

Details

• NCID: BC00423498
• ISBN:
  • 9780674248373
• LCCN: 2020011106
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge, Mass.
• Pages/Volumes: 363 p.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : D13
  • DC23 : 907.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Historiography
  • LCSH : Imperialism -- Historiography
  • LCSH : Great Britain -- Colonies -- Historiography