Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged by Homayon Katouzian, Peter Furtado, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Murat Siviloglu, Pirjo Markkola, Laszlo Kontler, Hussein Bassir, Ciaran Brady, Pavel Seifter, Stefan Berger, Iwona Sakowicz, Willem Frijhoff, Antonis Liakos, Jeremy Black, Dina Khapaeva, Ryūichi Narita, Giovanni Levi, Luiz Marques, Federico Lorenz, Mihir Bose, Elizabeth Baquedano, Colin Shindler, Peter Onuf, Wilhelmina Donkoh, Peter Aronsson, Stuart Macintyre, Enric Ucelay-Da Cal, Zhitian Luo, Margaret Conrad

Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged

Homayon Katouzian, Peter Furtado, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Murat Siviloglu, Pirjo Markkola, Laszlo Kontler, Hussein Bassir, Ciaran Brady, Pavel Seifter, Stefan Berger, Iwona Sakowicz, Willem Frijhoff, Antonis Liakos, Jeremy Black, Dina Khapaeva, Ryūichi Narita, Giovanni Levi, Luiz Marques, Federico Lorenz, Mihir Bose, Elizabeth Baquedano, Colin Shindler, Peter Onuf, Wilhelmina Donkoh, Peter Aronsson, Stuart Macintyre, Enric Ucelay-Da Cal, Zhitian Luo, Margaret Conrad

320 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history reference challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Global histories tend to be written from the narrow viewpoint of a single author and a single perspective, with the inevitable bias that it entails. But in this thought-provoking collection, twenty-eight writers and scholars give engaging, often p...

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