Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History (Random House), first published last year in Canada, is a call to arms for professional historians to take back history from those who abuse it for contemporary purposes. Margaret MacMillan, a professor at Oxford University, invites us to question the political and social motives that often define the creation of historical narratives. She admonishes governments and leaders using history to undermine the past, going so far as to question the significance of apologizing for historical wrongs. Using example after example, MacMillan demonstrates the violence that skewed history can create and mourns a trend of poorly researched historical biographies pouring from the press to fill a demand for new heroes.
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