EPISODE · Jul 26, 2010 · 1H 29M
Why History Matters: Historians reshape the world
from Sydney Ideas · host Sydney Ideas
Do we need our history to be global? Work, leisure, war and peace, these are some of the themes that historians are now mapping onto a global past. Join historians David Armitage, Joyce E. Chaplin and Erez Manela from Harvard University, along with Sunil Amrith from Birkbeck College, University of London, in a conversation led by Glenda Sluga from the University of Sydney, as they talk about how they approach the past globally, and hear the stories that they have to tell about our round world. For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/why_history_matters_forum_2010.shtml
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Do we need our history to be global? Work, leisure, war and peace, these are some of the themes that historians are now mapping onto a global past. Join historians David Armitage, Joyce E. Chaplin and Erez Manela from Harvard University, along with Sunil Amrith from Birkbeck College, University of London, in a conversation led by Glenda Sluga from the University of Sydney, as they talk about how they approach the past globally, and hear the stories that they have to tell about our round world. For more info and speaker's biography see this page: http://sydney.edu.au/sydney_ideas/lectures/2010/why_history_matters_forum_2010.shtml
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