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History’s Complicity in Empire
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What role have historians, and the discipline of history itself, played in how historical events unfold? Priya Satia contends that historians were key architects of British imperialism, that history enabled empire in fundamental ways. She also contests the notion that history unfolds in a linear and progressive fashion, and discusses the work and impact of the working-class historian E. P. Thompson. (Encore presentation.)
Priya Satia, Time’s Monster: How History Makes History Belknap Press, 2023 (paper)
The post History’s Complicity in Empire appeared first on KPFA.
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Manage episode 425806084 series 2457681
What role have historians, and the discipline of history itself, played in how historical events unfold? Priya Satia contends that historians were key architects of British imperialism, that history enabled empire in fundamental ways. She also contests the notion that history unfolds in a linear and progressive fashion, and discusses the work and impact of the working-class historian E. P. Thompson. (Encore presentation.)
Priya Satia, Time’s Monster: How History Makes History Belknap Press, 2023 (paper)
The post History’s Complicity in Empire appeared first on KPFA.
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