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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 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.

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  • "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."@en
  • "This book explores the many ways in which history -- its values and dangers -- affects us all, including how it is used and abused. The author reveals how a deeper engagement with history in our private lives and, more important, in the sphere of public debate can guide us to a richer, more enlightened existence, as individuals and nations. --from publisher description."
  • "Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns."
  • "Explores the ways in which history has been used to influence people and government, focusing on how reportage of past events has been manipulated to justify religious movements and political campaigns."@en
  • "Juegos peligrosos trata de la Historia en sí: del modo en que se la usa y en que se abusa de ella, en que se la manipula para justificar una matanza o una guerra o el poder de un tirano, en que se la sustituye por leyendas urdidas para alimentar el narcisismo colectivo, para envejecer y ennoblecer un pasado que no tuvo nada de ejemplar ni de glorioso o que sencillamente no existió."@es

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  • "Dangerous games : the uses and abuses of history"
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  • "Juegos peligrosos : usos y abusos de la historia"@es
  • "Juegos peligrosos : usos y abusos de la historia"
  • "Dangerous games the uses and abuses of history"@en
  • "Dangerous games the uses and abuses of history"

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