For this fund-raising book famous writers from around the world have selected their favourite quotes about history. Each has selected a quote and provided an original commentary explaining why it strikes a chord with them. 'Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter": - Nigerian proverb "This proverb undermines the idea of "objective" history. It's all too easy to think that bias in history is bad, and that objectivity is good. But objectivity is usually a euphemism for the ...
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For this fund-raising book famous writers from around the world have selected their favourite quotes about history. Each has selected a quote and provided an original commentary explaining why it strikes a chord with them. 'Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter": - Nigerian proverb "This proverb undermines the idea of "objective" history. It's all too easy to think that bias in history is bad, and that objectivity is good. But objectivity is usually a euphemism for the history of the victors, or the history of the hunters. What would an objective history of the Iraq war look like?" - Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University The long list of contributers includes: Juliet Barker, Conrad Black, Michael Bliss, Asa Briggs, Richard Cohen, Carlo D'Este, Terry Deary, Charles Esdaile, Richard Evans, Juliet Gardiner, Martin Gilbert, Charlotte Gray, Philip Haythornthwaite, James Holland, Eric Hobsbawm, Richard Holmes, Terry Jones, Arthur Kershaw, Ina Knight, Phillip Knightly, Guido Knopp, Andrew Lambert, Paul Lay, Quentin Letts, Allan Mallinson. John Man, Hilary Mantel, Melissa Muller, Roger Moorhouse, Bill Nasson, David Nicolle, Charles von Onselen, Richard Overy, Laurence Rees, Andrew Roberts, Trevor Royle, James Shapiro, Gary Sheffield, Dennis Showalter, Dan Snow, Hew Strachan, Roy Strong, Claire Tomalin, Gerhard Weinberg, Keith Windschuttle and Efraim Zuroff. SELLING POINTS: .Quotes and commentaries by more than 100 world-renowned historians and writers including Andrew Roberts, Ian Kershaw, Antony Beevor and Dan Snow. .All royalties will be donated to the Parkinson's Disease Society. ILLUSTRATIONS: Illustrated throughout *
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Add this copy of The Hand of History: an Anthology of Quotes and to cart. $10.00, very good condition, Sold by SmarterRat Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chagrin Falls, OH, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Greenhill Books.
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Very Good; Very Good Jacket. 2011 Greenhill Books, Elstree, Hertfordshire. Hardcover has blue textured paper-covered boards with gold spine lettering. Illustrated endpapers. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations by Chris Riddell. 174 pages. NOT Remaindered. NOT ex-library. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Spine ends lightly bumped. Pages clean and unmarked. Glossy illustrated dust jacket has a few small edges wrinkles and two very small edge tears on the back panel. Dust jacket is NOT price clipped. Printed in Great Britain, Carefully packed, shipped in a box. Includes dust jacket.
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Illustrations by Chris Riddell. Near Fine in Near Fine, Not Price Clipped jacket. Book Minor wear; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition.
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