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Undivided Past
This title is an impassioned controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of writing history - from world-famous historian David Cannadine. David Cannadine is one of Britains most distinguished historians and this is his masterpiece. The Undivided Past" is an agonised attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize differences - to create an us versus them. Great works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and provided the intellectual backing and justification for terrible political decisions. Again and again categories have been found - whether religion nation class gender race or civilization - that have sought to explain world events by
fabricating some malevolent or helpless other. This book is above all an appeal to common humanity. We seem doomed always to fall (most recently in the wake of 9/11) into the us versus them trap but there is no reason why the history we read and write should not be much better than this and describe what we all have in common rather than what divides us. About the author: Sir David Cannadine is Chair of the National Portrait Gallery Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and General Editor of the "Penguin History of Europe" and "Penguin History of Britain". He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Chair of the Blue Plaques Committee. His major books include "The Rise and Fall of the British Aristocracy" "Ornamentalism" and
"Mellon: A Life". He is currently writing the "Penguin History of Victorian Britain". He has previously taught at Cambridge Columbia and London universities."
fabricating some malevolent or helpless other. This book is above all an appeal to common humanity. We seem doomed always to fall (most recently in the wake of 9/11) into the us versus them trap but there is no reason why the history we read and write should not be much better than this and describe what we all have in common rather than what divides us. About the author: Sir David Cannadine is Chair of the National Portrait Gallery Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University and General Editor of the "Penguin History of Europe" and "Penguin History of Britain". He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Chair of the Blue Plaques Committee. His major books include "The Rise and Fall of the British Aristocracy" "Ornamentalism" and
"Mellon: A Life". He is currently writing the "Penguin History of Victorian Britain". He has previously taught at Cambridge Columbia and London universities."
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