History – Why It Matters Why It Matters Hunt Hardback Polity Press 9781509525539

History: Why It Matters\nby Lynn Hunt\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Lynn Hunt\nTitle: History: Why It Matters\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Historiography\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781509525539\nISBN-10: 150952553X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWe justify our actions in the present through our understanding of the past. But we live in a time when politicians lie brazenly about historical facts and meddle with the content of history books, while media differ wildly in their reporting of the same event. Frequently, new discoveries force us to re-evaluate everything we thought we knew about the past. \nSo how can any certainty about history be established, and why does it matter? Lynn Hunt shows why the search for truth abou.