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- ISBN 9789189425064
- Dimensions: 150 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 22 Jun 2023
- Publisher: Stolpe Publishing
- Publication City/Country: SE
- Product Form: Hardback
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The admonition that we should learn from history is well known. But what does that actually mean? Advocates of applied history argue that historical studies can be used in practice and provide guidance for the future. Decision-makers and political leaders can gain perspective, find clues to where a trend could lead, and assess what consequences an action could have.But the growing popularity of applied history obscures the fact that ever since Ancient Greece, historians have analysed the big political, economic and military issues from similar perspectives and approaches. Each generation of historians has developed their research based on previous ideas and knowledge, with the goal of understanding their own era by studying the past. Classics of Applied History takes a broad and ambitious approach to how historical knowledge is created, taught and used in different periods. A wide range of texts are presented in the book, which together create an overview of, as well as insight into, this always topical subject.
John Bew is Professor of History and Foreign Policy at the War Studies Department at King’s College London. From 2019, he served as foreign policy adviser to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In 2015, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for Politics and International Relations. His books include Realpolitik: A History and Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee. Andrew Ehrhardt is an Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy (AJI) Postdoctoral Fellow at SAIS Johns Hopkins, and a Visiting Fellow with the Centre for Grand Strategy at King’s College London. He completed his Ph.D. in the Department of War Studies at KCL, where his research focused on the British Foreign Office and the creation of the United Nations Organization during the Second World War. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, Andrew graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. Mattias Hessérus is the Director of the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy and sits on the committee of the Engelsberg Applied History Programme at the University of Cambridge and King’s College London. Hessérus received a PhD from Uppsala University. He was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at Columbia University in New York City, and held a Swedish Institute Scholarship at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He has worked for radio and TV and spent three years as review editor of Axess Magazine.
