The Purpose of the Past: The Reflections on the Uses of History - Hardcover

Wood, Gordon S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594201544 ISBN 13: 9781594201547

Publisher: Penguin Pr, 2008

Synopsis

: An analysis of the practice and art of historical documentation evaluates the contributions of some of the world s most important historians, explaining how the modern world is requiring key changes to the discipline of recording history. 30,000 first printing.

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Review:

aEssential reading for anyone who cares about history.a
aJonathan Yardley, "The Washington Post"
aIlluminating . . . [Woodas] pitch-perfect erudition is legendary.a
aDouglas Brinkley, "Los Angeles Times"

"Essential reading for anyone who cares about history."
-Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post

"Illuminating . . . [Wood's] pitch-perfect erudition is legendary."
-Douglas Brinkley, Los Angeles Times

About the Author:

Gordon S. Wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor and professor of history at Brown University. His 1969 book, The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787, received the Bancroft and John H. Dunning prizes and was nominated for the National Book Award. His 1992 book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize. Wood contributes regularly to The New Republic and The New York Review of Books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Pr
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1594201544
• ISBN 13: 9781594201547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 323