Clio's Battles: Historiography in Practice

A survey of the variety of readings we have of the past and of how those readings are used in the present day to validate, discredit, unite, or divide.

To write history is to consider how to explicate the past, to weigh the myriad possible approaches to the past, and to come to terms with how the past can be and has been used. In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus is on the interaction between the presentatio...