A review by alicia098
The Uses and Abuses of History by Margaret MacMillan

Did not finish book. Stopped at 16%.

The author makes contradicting statements that I find difficult to understand what she is trying to convey. The the tone I find to be quite condescending and somewhat ill-informed as she mentions that we focus to much on apologising for the past and that we should only focus on the present. Which is insensitive to many communities throughout the world that have suffered. As she also chastises historians today for partaking in cultural and society studies versus political and economic history. Which I disagree with as part of understanding history and different movements is to get the context through which these movements came about. She also goes on to state that such history is not 'real history'.