TY  - BOOK
AU  - MacMillan,Margaret Olwen
TI  - The uses and abuses of history
SN  - 9781846682049 (pbk.)
AV  - D 16.8 M167u 2009
U1  - 901 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London
PB  - Profile Books
KW  - History
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Errors, inventions, etc
KW  - Historia
KW  - Filosofía
KW  - Filosofía de la historia
KW  - Historiografía
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The history craze
History for comfort
Who owns the past?
History and identity
History and nationalism
Presenting history's bill
History wars
History as a guide
N2  - Abuses of history can have dire consequences - look at Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Margaret MacMillan's argument for why history matters shows how treating the past with respect can lead us to a better understanding with the present
ER  -