History is useful when it is used properly: to understand why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. It can offer examples to inform our decisions and guesses about the consequences of our actions. But we should be wary of looking to history for dogmatic lessons.We should distrust those who abuse history when they call on it to justify unreasonable claims to land, for example, or restitution. MacMillan illustrates how dangerous history can be in the hands of nationalistic or religious or ethnic ...
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History is useful when it is used properly: to understand why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. It can offer examples to inform our decisions and guesses about the consequences of our actions. But we should be wary of looking to history for dogmatic lessons.We should distrust those who abuse history when they call on it to justify unreasonable claims to land, for example, or restitution. MacMillan illustrates how dangerous history can be in the hands of nationalistic or religious or ethnic leaders who use it to foster a sense of grievance and a desire for revenge.
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As it is to be expected, Margaret MacMillan hits the literary bull'seye again with this book about the mistakes we can make by assessing the present by the past.
Her writing is clear, elegant and often leavened with her own wry sense of humour, an invaluable attribute when reading a book on history.
OLDFASHIONEDHISTORIAN
Sep 12, 2013
Interesting analysis of the uses made of history. Originally a series of lectures, it probably was better in that form.
