Time's monster: history, conscience and Britain's empire / Priya Satia

By:

Satia, Priya [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: USA The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,; Allen Lane 2020Description: ix, 363 pages, 24 cmISBN:

9780241501788(pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

941.0072 SAT

Contents:

The Progress of war -- Progress as penance -- Progress of elimination -- The redemption of progress -- The division of progress -- The past and future of history.

Summary: Time's Monster demonstrates the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities, debates about reparations, and the crisis in the humanities, Satia's is an urgent moral voice"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	941.0072 SAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Checked out to Aashique Ahmed Iqbal (KF10)	28/07/2023	K5547

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Rs.699/-

Simultaneously published in the United Kingdom as Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd., a Penguin Random House Company.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Progress of war -- Progress as penance -- Progress of elimination -- The redemption of progress -- The division of progress -- The past and future of history.

Time's Monster demonstrates the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities, debates about reparations, and the crisis in the humanities, Satia's is an urgent moral voice"-- Provided by publisher.

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