British historians influenced the empire in critical ways. Time's Monster shows how the modern vision of history as a form of ethics empowered historians to shape policy, while history became a justification for domination. Later, alternative notions of history revised the discipline's ethics and effects, reminding us that ideas have consequences.
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Much of the best scholarship today is distinguished by a vigorous and sustained challenge to old imperialist verities. Priya Satia's Time's Monster, which comes out of a long, if little-noticed, intellectual counter-tradition in Asia and Europe, bracingly describes how our moral and political imagination became so constrained and how it could be liberated Pankaj Mishra, New Statesman, Books of the Year