Eating One's Own: A Conversation with David Armitage

This book is based on an in-depth conversation with intellectual historian David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. This conversation covers David Armitage's research on the history of ideas of civil war from Ancient Rome to the present. A salient featu...

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Main Author: Burton, Howard (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto Open Agenda Publishing 2020
Edition:1st ed
Series:Ideas Roadshow Conversations Ser
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Summary:This book is based on an in-depth conversation with intellectual historian David Armitage, the Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University. This conversation covers David Armitage's research on the history of ideas of civil war from Ancient Rome to the present. A salient feature of Armitage's work is a strong focus on etymology as it relates to our understanding of how people interpreted (or misinterpreted) and perceived events in history which results in a fascinating exploration of how our understanding of various concepts has been prejudiced by past societies and past beliefs that we might not even be aware of, and how they, in turn, go on to influence other societies; and how this cumulative process frames our understanding of these ideas. This carefully-edited book includes a detailed introduction, questions for discussion at the end of each chapter and connections with other books in the Ideas Roadshow Conversations series
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (46 Seiten)
ISBN:9781771700269

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