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| TITLE: |
Time's monster : how history makes history / Priya Satia. |
| AUTHOR: |
Satia, Priya, author. |
| PUBLISHED: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020. |
| DESCRIPTION: |
ix, 363 pages : illustrations, maps : 24 cm |
| NOTES: |
Simultaneously published in the United Kingdom as Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd., a Penguin Random House Company. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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The Progress of war -- Progress as penance -- Progress of elimination -- The redemption of progress -- The division of progress -- The past and future of history. |
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Time's Monster demonstrates the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities, debates about reparations, and the crisis in the humanities, Satia's is an urgent moral voice"-- |c Provided by publisher. |
| SUBJECT: |
Historiography. |
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Imperialism --Historiography. |
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Great Britain --Colonies --Historiography. |
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