Apologies to Thucydides (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	November 2013
Authors:	Marshall Sahlins
Dimensions:	227 x 153 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	348
Edition:	2nd Ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-10382-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Promotions
LSN:	0-226-10382-X
Barcode:	9780226103822

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