Contributor(s)
David Armitage
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
How should historians speak truth to power -- and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history -- especially long-term history -- so essential to understanding the multiple pasts which give rise to our conflicted present? The History Manifesto is a call to arms to historians and everyone interested in the role of history in contemporary society.
Document Type
Book
Keywords
longue duree, futurism, the university, academia, humanities, history, the crisis of the humanities, planning
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | History | Social and Behavioral Sciences
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139923880
Rights
CreativeCommons-Attribution-NoDerivatives-NonCommercial
Source
Cambridge University Press, 2014
Language
English
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Guldi, Jo, "The History Manifesto" (2014). History Faculty Publications. 8.
https://scholar.smu.edu/hum_sci_history_research/8
