Why Not Let The Leaning Tower Collapse
eBook - ePub

Why Not Let The Leaning Tower Collapse

and other essays examining what we think of as "history"

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eBook - ePub

Why Not Let The Leaning Tower Collapse

and other essays examining what we think of as "history"

About this book

Daniel Snowman is a social and cultural historian. His latest book is a collection of some of the more provocative essays he has published over many decades that examine how we use and abuse 'history'.
If the past is everything that has ever happened, he asks, why does what we call 'history' keep changing? What (or who) causes historical change? Could aspects of the past itself have been different? What do we choose to retain as our 'heritage' – and why? Are 'the arts' part of history or merely illustrative of it? Is Auschwitz in danger of becoming just another historical museum? Should the leaning Tower of Pisa be allowed to fall in the interests of 'historical authenticity'?
Daniel also wonders why historians are supposedly brilliant at explaining everything that has ever happened in the past – yet useless at predicting the future? In the wise words of the great French historian Marc Bloch (who was executed by the Nazis in 1944): "Misunderstanding of the present is the inevitable consequence of ignorance of the past. '

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Information

Publisher
Brown Dog Books
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781839528163
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
World History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title Page
  3. Also by Daniel Snowman
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Heritage, History and Historians
  9. 6. ‘IFS’ of History
  10. 7. Wireless is More
  11. 8. BBC Centenary
  12. History and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR)
  13. 10. ‘History Now and Then’ (continued)
  14. IHR Website
  15. 12. IHR blogs
  16. Britain, Germany, War and the World
  17. 14. World War II: Forty Years On: Is the War ‘just history’?
  18. 15. Dresden
  19. 16. The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism
  20. 17. Final Solution: The Fate of the Jews, 1933–49
  21. 18. The 2003 IHR Scouloudi Lecture: ‘The Hitler Emigrés’: The Cultural Impact on Britain of Refugees from Nazism’
  22. 19. Insiders/Outsiders: Introduction
  23. 20. President Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb in 1945
  24. History and the Arts
  25. 22. ‘Historians and the Arts, 1950–2010’
  26. 23. ‘Guerra! Guerra!’ – War and the Arts, 1800–2000
  27. …and Music in Particular
  28. 25. Nuremberg Chronicles
  29. Matters Operatic
  30. 27. Let’s Get Together
  31. 28. Opera in America: New World Overtures
  32. 29. The ROH Collections
  33. 30. Callas as Catalyst
  34. Composers: Handel, Verdi, Wagner and Puccini
  35. 31. Handel: Introduction to Solomon
  36. 32. ‘Viva Verdi!’
  37. 33. Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler’s Bayreuth
  38. 34. Wagner
  39. 35. At home with Puccini
  40. Life and Times: Past, Present and Future
  41. 37. Virgins: A Cultural History and Rape: A history from 1860 to the Present
  42. 38. Pole Positions: The Polar regions and the future of the planet
  43. 39. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century and Denial: The Unspeakable Truth
  44. 40. Obituary.
  45. Afterword