Past Mistakes How We Misinterpret History and Why it Matters

As Brexit made very clear, history is constantly exploited, twisted and misrepresented for all sorts of gains. This book sets some myths straight.div>br>/div>div>Sure to make headlines - full of surprising revelations and assumption-busting history./div>div>br>/div>div>For fans of Mary Beard''s i>Confronting the Classics/i>, Lucy Worsley, Peter Frankopan''s i>The Silk Roads/i>, Tim Marshall''s i>Prisoners of Geography/i> and Hans Rosling''s i>Factfulness: Ten Reasons We''re Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. /i>/div>

Product details

• Authors: David Mountain
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 03.06.2021
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > General, reference works; Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9781785786907
• ISBN: 978-1-78578-690-7
• Subjects: History, History of Ideas, Black Lives Matter, Postcolonialism, HISTORY / Ancient / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Wild West, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Colonialism & imperialism, Boudicca, Colonialism and imperialism, Ancient History, General and world history, barbarians, classical sculpture, Whitewashing, revisionist history, cecil rhodes, Elgin marbles, Crystal Skull, slave trader, Edward Colston, bristol statues, US gun laws, An alternative history of mankind