The Control of the Past: Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official History - Couverture souple

Salmon, Patrick

 
9781914477195: The Control of the Past: Herbert Butterfield and the Pitfalls of Official History
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1914477197 ISBN 13 : 9781914477195
Editeur : University of London Press, 2021

Synopsis

Written by one of the few historians employed by the British government, this important book details how successive governments have applied a selective approach to the past in order to tell or re-tell Britain's national history, with implications for the future. Providing a unique overview of the main trends of official history in Britain since the Second World War, the book details how Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) became one of the earliest and strongest critics of what he saw as the British government's attempts to control the past through the writing of so-called, 'official histories'.

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À propos de l?auteur

Patrick Salmon is chief historian at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, a department of the government of the United Kingdom. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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Éditeur
University of London Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1914477197
ISBN 13 
9781914477195
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
118
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Personne responsable
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