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
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.06.2021
• EAN: 9781785786907
• ISBN: 978-1-78578-690-7
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > General, reference works; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Colonialism & imperialism