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Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History [Audiobook]
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Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History [Audiobook]
English | June 23, 2009 | ASIN: B002EDTVFQ | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 48m | 160 MB
Author: Dr. Margaret MacMillan | Narrator: Barbara Caruso
English | June 23, 2009 | ASIN: B002EDTVFQ | M4B@64 kbps | 5h 48m | 160 MB
Author: Dr. Margaret MacMillan | Narrator: Barbara Caruso
The winner of many prestigious awards for her scholarship, historian Margaret MacMillan is also the New York Times best-selling author of Paris 1919. In Dangerous Games, she illustrates how history should never be presented as a series of facts, but instead as a framing device for understanding the past.
As professional 21st-century historians cede the literary field to the popular amateur, history and its meanings become muddled - especially in the punditocracy championed by modern media. Copious amounts of cherry-picked facts and manufactured heroes are used to create a narrative rather than give any insight into past events. MacMillan offers an antidote to this by providing the necessary tools to help interpret history in constructive ways.