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Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century

By Tony , Judt

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN
9781440634550, 1440634556
Language
english
Format
AZW3
Filesize
726 kB (743864 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
History;HISTORY--Modern--21st Century;HISTORY -- M

Description

We have entered an age of forgetting. Our world, we insist, is unprecedented, wholly new. The past has nothing to teach us. Drawing provocative connections between a dazzling range of subjects, from Jewish intellectuals and the challenge of evil in the recent European past to the interpretation of the Cold War and the displacement of history by heritage, the late historian Tony Judt takes us beyond what we think we know of the past to explain how we came to know it, showing how much of our history has been sacrificed in the triumph of myth-making over understanding and denial over memory. Reappraisals offers a much-needed road map back to the historical sense we urgently need.

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