Peter Furtado
Autore di Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged
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Peter Furtado edited the monthly magazine History Today from 1998 to 2008, and in 2009 Oxford Brookes University awarded him an honorary doctorate. He is author of 1001 Days that Changed the World and The Histories of Nations, and also wrote Restoration England for Shire.
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Opere di Peter Furtado
London (1805-1819) — A cura di — 4 copie
History Today, March 2004 — A cura di — 3 copie
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- Data di nascita
- 20th Century
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
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Korte geschiedenis van 28 landen geschreven door een lokale historicus. Het boek is een verfrissende kijk op de geschiedenis vanuit een nationaal perspectief, i.e. de manier hoe een ieder geschiedenis op school voorgeschoteld krijgen. Het valt vooral op dat landen geen logische (historische) eenheden zijn: Landen bestaan niet lang; en landen (en hun geschiedenis) zijn verzinsels van mensen. De wereld van de mensen is een chaos.
It was ok I guess. Several of the entries were more concerned about how that particular country saw its own past rather than a straightforward telling of that history and each one was written by a different author so you get a real mixed bag. After reading twenty-eight in such short order you come away with a vague depressing feeling of how unstable the world is and how you reap what you sow.
It's a big tome, which covers a lot of events in history with half to one page. That format brings with it a lot of constraints. Given those constraints, I thought it did remarkably well. There are parts of history that I felt I knew quite well and I thought the coverage of those was good. The beauty of the book is that having read it there were many other parts of history that I had no, or just the most fleeting, knowledge of - and now I have at least an awareness of them. The authors are British, and whilst the coverage does strive to be international, and the coverage of European history seems to be quite broad, there were a few selections that left me wondering "did that really shape the world?". Definitely not a cover-to-cover read, but a nice book to dip into.… (altro)
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Each History varying in length from 8 to 14 pages & therefore necessarily limited detail & almost no perspective; plus 202 illustrations across the 303 pages: There's also a very helpful Further Reading List & an Index.… (altro)