Reckoning with History
Essays on Uses of the Past
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2024
- Category
- Essays
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780228022428
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $110.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780228022442
- Publish Date
- Sep 2024
- List Price
- $110.00
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Description
Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which people have reckoned with history in pasts both distant and near.
Reckoning with History begins by examining uses of the past in early modern Britain, a period in which print, religious reformation, and political conflict transformed historical culture. Later essays offer insights into personal, popular, professional, and sometimes deeply political uses of the past in other times and places, helping to contextualize our own moments in historical writing and to link the early and post-modern periods. Throughout, contributors respond to the writings of Daniel Woolf, whose scholarship illuminates the history of the historical discipline and the social circulation of the past.
Covering subjects such as early archival practices, memories of historic plagues, and the type of commemorations needed to revitalize liberal democracies, Reckoning with History contextualizes the uses of the past today.
About the authors
K.J. Kesselring is professor of history at Dalhousie University.
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Matthew Neufeld is associate professor of history at the University of Saskatchewan.
