In the name of history / Joan Wallach Scott.

"In this book Joan Wallach Scott discusses the role history has played as an arbiter of right and wrong and of those who claim to act in its name-- "in the name of history." Scott investigates three different instances in which repudiation of the past was conceived as a way to a bette...

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Main Author:	Scott, Joan Wallach (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2020.
Series:	Natalie Zemon Davis annual lecture series.
Subjects:	History > Philosophy.