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Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid, applicable to all societies at all times. Here, however, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides' history with a groundbreaking book that shows how different cultures develop different modes of historical production. Ranging from the Peloponnesian War to the nineteenth-century fight over the Fiji Islands to Bobby Thomson's "shot heard round the world" for the 1951 Giants to the history-making of Napoleon, he demonstrates again and again the necessity of taking culture into account in the creation of history - with apologies to Thucydides, who too often did not.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: theory & methods

• Full title: Apologies to Thucydides
• Author: Marshall Sahlins
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 348
• EAN: 9780226103822
• ISBN: 022610382X
• ID: 02438222
• Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
• Weight: 582 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 158 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. November 2013

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