Historians, turn to the longue durée and focus your minds on the needs of our age. Your insights are needed to address intractable global issues such as climate change, inequality and governance. Dig deep into long time to assist policy makers to steer humanity into a better place. This is the siren call of The History Manifesto. Written by historians, Jo Guldi of Brown … [Read more...] about Review: The History Manifesto
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Introducing the Annales Approach to History
They were heady days when the first issue of a new history journal was published. The cataclysmic disruptor, the Great War, had ended and many people in the western world were revelling in the moment on a giddy ride skimming the crests of a sea of change. Others were churning the waters in their desire to shed the old ways, to think and do differently. Everything was … [Read more...] about Introducing the Annales Approach to History