What Is History For? by Robert Gildea

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/133081 to listen full audiobooks. Title: What Is History For? Author: Robert Gildea Narrator: Robbie Stevens Format: mp3 Length: 4 hrs and 17 mins Release date: 11-08-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: Historiography Publisher's Summary: “History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake news, so how can we tell good history from bad? In this passionately argued book, Gildea suggests that the more people who really understand what good history entails, the more likely history is to triumph over myth.