Writing History in the Global Era [Hardcover]

George Orwell wrote that history is written by the winners. Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically.No one has a better nose for historical trends than Lynn Hunt. Her short, sharp book offers an inspiring declaration of interdependence for historiansto understand the global present collaboratively, using all our tools to unscramble the entangled past.With characteristic concision and lucidity, Lynn Hunt takes on the methodological dilemmas facing all historians today. How should we think of history in a postnational era? What is gained and lost by going global? What happens to individual actors and agency when history is written on a transnational scale?Hunts compact book should serve as the first port of call for students and general readers interested in how historians have interpreted and reinterpreted the emergence of the world around them.Hunt has& the most reliable eye for new trends in the American historical profession, and what she considers important always amounts to more than the sum of her current enthusiasms& she has a preternatural sense of the new new thing being touted by historians to study old things.Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in todays global world and how it should be written.