{"id":13683,"date":"2019-02-16T17:20:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T17:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=13683"},"modified":"2019-02-16T17:21:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T17:21:16","slug":"lynn-hunt-history-why-it-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=13683","title":{"rendered":"Lynn Hunt, \u201cHistory: Why it Matters\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Izdava\u010d Polity objavio je 2018. godine knjigu Lynn Hunt \u201cHistory: Why it Matters\u201d, povjesni\u010darke \u010dije su knjige prikazivane u hrvatskoj historiografiji, a preveden je i poznati zbornik koji je uredila \u201cNova kulturna historija\u201d (Zagreb 2001).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>History: Why It Matters<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lynn Hunt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>March 2018| Polity| 140 Pages|<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the past.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So how can any certainty about history be established, and why does it matter? Lynn Hunt shows why the search for truth about the past, as a continual process of discovery, is vital for our societies. History has an essential role to play in ensuring honest presentation of evidence. In this way, it can foster humility about our present-day concerns, a critical attitude toward chauvinism, and an openness to other peoples and cultures. History, Hunt argues, is our best defense against tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Introducing Polity\u2019s <em>Why It Matters<\/em> series; in these short and lively books, world-leading thinkers make the case for the importance of their subjects and aim to inspire a new generation of students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lynn Hunt<\/strong> is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA and the author of numerous popular and scholarly history books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Table of contents <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1. Now More Than Ever<\/li>\n<li>2. Truth in History<\/li>\n<li>3. History\u2019s Politics<\/li>\n<li>4. History\u2019s Future<\/li>\n<li>Further Reading<\/li>\n<li>Index<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reviews <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A smart, pithy, and frankly essential statement of the origins, aims, and methods of historical study. E.H. Carr\u2019s <em>What is History?<\/em> for the twenty-first century.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Jill Lepore, Harvard University and author of <em>These Truths: A History of the United States.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is history now, why does it matter now, who are the people writing it, and who are they writing for? In this bracing and timely book, Lynn Hunt not only shows why these questions matter, but also answers them brilliantly and provocatively.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Sir David Cannadine, President of the British Academy<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Confronted by the thickening miasma of lies seeping from the White House and Fox News, what\u2019s a historian to do? In fact, given the present circumstances, does it matter that we do anything at all? According to Lynn Hunt, it does. As the Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA, Hunt has, over a long and brilliant career, earned the right to make that claim.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Los Angeles Review of Books<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8216;A timely reconsideration of the value of History&#8230; A brief and lively call to arms&#8217;<strong><br \/>\nAmy Murrell Taylor, Times Literary Supplement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-hr\/History:+Why+It+Matters-p-9781509525539\">https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-hr\/History:+Why+It+Matters-p-9781509525539<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/hunt.jpg?fit=300%2C459&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55107,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55107","url_meta":{"origin":13683,"position":0},"title":"Leonora Neville, \u201eSailing Away from Byzantium Toward East Roman History\u201c","author":"Filip \u0160imunjak","date":"28. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Although the first thing one learns about the 'Byzantine Empire' is that it was really the eastern Roman empire, scholars have preferred to call it 'Byzantine' in a repudiation of the self-conception and emic vocabulary of the inhabitants of that polity. 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