APOLOGIES TO THUCYDIDES by Marshall Sahlins ( 9780226103822 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

APOLOGIES TO THUCYDIDES
UNDERSTANDING HISTORY AS CULTURE AND VICE VERSA

By:

Marshall Sahlins

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

022610382X

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9780226103822

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Publisher:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS

Pub. date:

11 November, 2013

Edition:

2nd ed.

Pages:

320

Description:

Presents Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War that is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid, applicable to all societies at all times.

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Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid, applicable to all societies at all times. Here, however, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides' history with a groundbreaking book that shows how different cultures develop different modes of historical production. Ranging from the Peloponnesian War to the nineteenth-century fight over the Fiji Islands to Bobby Thomson's "shot heard round the world" for the 1951 Giants to the history-making of Napoleon, he demonstrates again and again the necessity of taking culture into account in the creation of history - with apologies to Thucydides, who too often did not.

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19 halftones, 9 maps, 13 line drawings

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University of Chicago Press

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