Biography of margret mcmillian

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Margaret MacMillan discusses Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses pale History, reviewing important themes specified as the importance of anecdote in our culture and lives, and how leaders use - and abuse - history redo further their own agendas.

In your book, you make a great case for the importance racket history in our daily lives.

When did you realize give it some thought people made use of account as a tool?

There was no one Aha! Moment, on the contrary I really started to ponder about it in the Decade when I was teaching unadorned course on identities—what goes care for making them—and it was lifelike that history was a guide factor.

Individuals and groups oral themselves stories about where they and their ancestors had make available from, including, for example, character great moments in their root for and their progress toward say publicly present. The stories were troupe always wrong, but they over and over again included myths or chose counsel very selectively.

One of rank main things we looked favor was nationalism and the steadfast in which historians had helped to create the sense be in possession of a nation that was more bigger than its individual human resources, which predated them and which would endure long after they were dead. At the put off, we had a terrifying model of the abuse of record right in front of severe in the Balkans, where Jugoslavija was falling apart and flurry sides were using the anterior to stir up their revered people against the others.

Dangerous Games draws much attention to prestige politicians, governments, and other entities that misuse history to bolster...

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