David Armitage, Jo Guldi

The History Manifesto

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A call to arms to historians and everyone interested in history in contemporary society. This title is also available as Open Access.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 360g
• ISBN-13: 9781107076341
• ISBN-10: 110707634X
• Artikelnr.: 41607920

Autorenporträt

Jo Guldi is just beginning her disciplinary career as Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. She has held fellowships at the University of Chicago, the Harvard Metalab, and the Harvard Society of Fellows. She is author of Roads to Power: Britain Invents the Infrastructure State (2011) and What is the Spatial Turn? (2012), as well as various articles and blog posts on aspects of British property law and digital history. She is the designer of Papermachines.org, digital software designed to facilitate the visualization of large amounts of text for historical and political analysis. She has published in Counterpunch and The Huffington Post, and maintains a personal website at http://landscape.blogspot.com. Her next monograph, The Long Land War (thelonglandwar.com) will tell the story of the rise of transnational land grabs, rent strikes, and land reform movements since 1880.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the bonfire of the humanities?
1. Going forward by looking back: the rise of the longue durée
2. The short past: or, the retreat of the longue durée
3. The long and the short: climate change, governance and inequality since the 1970s
4. Big questions, big data
Conclusion: the public future of the past.