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History is used to justify religious movements and political campaigns alike. The manipulation of history is increasingly pervasive in todays world. Dictators may suppress history because it undermines their ideas, agendas, or claims to absolute authority. Nationalists may tell false, one-sided, or misleading stories about the past. Political leaders might mobilize their people by telling lies. Adolf Hitler, for instance, blamed the Jews for Germanys humiliation at Versailles and its defeat in World War I. It is imperative that we have an understanding of the past and avoid the all-too-common traps in thinking to which many fall preyas MacMillan skillfully illuminates. This brilliantly reasoned work will compel us to examine history anew, including our own understanding of it, and our own closely held beliefs.
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This book grew out of an invitation I received from the History Department at the University of Western Ontario to give the Joanne Goodman lectures in the fall of 2007. The series, named in memory of a history student who was tragically killed in a car accident, dates back to 1966 and has had a distinguished roster of lecturers. It was an honor to be among their number and also a wonderful opportunity to reflect on a subject of my own choosing. I am grateful to the faculty and students at Western who sat through my lectures and helped me to refine my thinking through their questions and comments.
I was very lucky to have found in Jonathan Weier an outstanding research assistant who in the end became more of a collaborator. I am also grateful, as always, to those friends and family members who discussed my ideas with me and who read my drafts with such patience. They make a long list, but I should single out for special mention my brothers, Tom and David; my sister, Ann; my brother-in-law, Peter Snow; and my nephews, Dan and Alex; as well as my agent, Caroline Dawnay, and her Canadian counterpart, Michael Levine. My mother, Eluned, as usual was an excellent critic and proofreader. Bob Bothwell has taught me so much about history over the years that it is difficult to thank him adequately. Yet again, he was kind enough to read my manuscript and give me his advice. I have also benefited greatly from being at Oxford University and talking to my many new colleagues who are interested in the ways in which history is used. I owe particular thanks to Anne Deighton, Rosemary Foot, Yuen Foong Khong, Kalypso Nicholadis, and Avi Shlaim and to the students at St. Antonys who have patiently listened to me talk and sent me much valuable information. Finally, but not last, are those at Random House who brought this book into being: Kate Medina, Frankie Jones, and Steve Messina. Thank you all.
Women of the Raj:
The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in India
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World
M ARGARET M AC M ILLAN is the author of Paris 1919, Nixon and Mao, and Women of the Raj. Paris 1919 won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction, the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for History, a Silver Medal for the Arthur Ross Book Award of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Governor-Generals prize for nonfiction, and it was selected by the editors of The New York Times as one of the best books of the year. A past provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, MacMillan is the warden of St. Antonys College at Oxford University.
There is a large and growing literature on the uses and abuses of both history and memory. The following is a list of some of the works I found most useful.
Abu El-Haj, Nadia. Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
Appleby, R. Scott. History in the Fundamentalist Imagination. Journal of American History 89, no. 2 (2002).
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Bacevich, Andrew J. The Real World War IV. Wilson Quarterly 29, no. 1 (Winter 2005).
Bell, Duncan, ed. Memory, Trauma, and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship Between Past and Present. Basingstoke, U.K: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Black, Jeremy. The Curse of History. London: Social Affairs Unit, 2008.
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh. The Southern Past. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005.
Cannadine, David, ed. What Is History Now? Basingstoke, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Carr, E. H. What Is History? London: Macmillan, 1961.
Collingwood, R. G. The Idea of History. Rev. ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Delisle, Esther. Myths, Memory, and Lies: Quebecs Intelligentsia and the Fascist Temptation, 19391960. Westmount, Q.C.: Robert Davies, 1998.
Evans, Richard. In Defence of History. London: Granta, 2000.
Fischer, David Hackett. Historians Fallacies: Toward a Logic of Historical Thought. New York: Harper and Row, 1970.
Gardner, Lloyd C, and Marilyn B. Young. Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam; or, How Not to Learn from the Past. New York: New Press, 2007.
Geary, Patrick J. The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2002.
Gillis, John R., ed. Commemorations: The Politics of National Identity. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1994.
Halberstam, David. The History Boys. Vanity Fair, Aug. 2007.
History & Memory (journal).
Hobsbawm, Eric, and Terence Ranger. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Howard, Michael. Captain Professor: The Memoirs of Sir Michael Howard. London: Continuum, 2006.
______. The Use and Abuse of Military History. RUSI Journal 107 (Feb. 1962).
Judah, Tim. The Serbs: History, Myth, and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.
Karlsson, Klas-Gran, and Ulf Zander, eds. Echoes of the Holocaust: Historical Cultures in Contemporary Europe. Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press, 2003.
Khong, Yuen Foong. Analogies at War: Korea, Munich, Dien Bien Phu, and the Vietnam Decisions of 1965. Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 1992.
Lebow, Richard Ned, Wulf Kansteiner, and Claudio Fogu, eds. The Politics of Memory in Postwar Europe. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2006.
Lefkowitz, Mary. History Lesson: A Race Odyssey. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008.
Linenthal, Edward T., and Tom Engelhardt. History Wars: The Enola Gay and Other Battles for the American Past. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Lowenthal, David. The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
May, Ernest R. Lessons of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
Murray, Williamson, and Richard Hart Sinnreich. The Past as Prologue: The Importance of History to the Military Profession. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Neustadt, Richard E., and Ernest R. May. Thinking in Time: The Uses of History for Decision Makers. New York: Free Press, 1986.
Nobles, Melissa. The Politics of Official Apologies. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Novick, Peter. The Holocaust in American Life. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Papp, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. London: Oneworld, 2006.
Record, Jeffrey. The Use and Abuse of History: Munich, Vietnam, and Iraq. Survival 49, no. 1 (Spring 2007).
Winter, Jay. Remembering War: The Great War Between Memory and History in the Twentieth Century. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006.
Winter, Jay, and Antoine Prost. The Great War in History: Debates and Controversies, 1914 to the Present. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Yoshida, Takashi. The Making of the Rape of Nanking: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
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