EAN: 9780141993928

TIMES MONSTER - PRIYA SATIA KARTONIERT (TB)

CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'In this searing book 
Priya Satia demonstrates  yet again  that she is one of our most brilliant and original
historians' Sunil Amrith  author of Unruly Waters For generations  the history of the British
empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the
consolidation of imperial rule in India  the Middle East  Africa and the Caribbean. Their
narratives of the development of imperial governance licensed the brutal suppression of
colonial rebellion. Their reimagining of empire during the two world wars compromised the force
of decolonization. In this brilliant work  Priya Satia shows how these historians not only
interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed.
History emerged as a mode of ethics in the modern period  endowing historians from John Stuart
Mill to Winston Churchill with outsized policymaking power. Braided with this story is an
account of alternative visions articulated by anticolonial thinkers such as William Blake 
Mahatma Gandhi and E. P. Thompson. By the mid-twentieth century  their approaches had reshaped
the discipline of history and the ethics that came with it. Time's Monster reveals the dramatic
consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring
global inequalities and debates about reparations and the legacy of empire  Satia offers us a
hugely important and urgent moral voice.

Aktuelle Preise zur EAN 9780141993928

Produktinformationen zur 9780141993928