{"product_id":"undivided-past","title":"Undivided Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Cannadine's impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of both equality and history\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreat works of history have so often had at their heart a wish to sift people in ways that have been profoundly damaging and provided intellectual justification for terrible political decisions. Again and again, categories have been found--religion, nation, class, gender, race, 'civilization'--that have sought to explain world events by fabricating some malevolent or helpless 'other'.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Undivided Past \u003c\/i\u003eis an agonised attempt to understand how so much of the writing of history has been driven by a fatal desire to dramatize \u003ci\u003edifferences - \u003c\/i\u003eto create an 'us versus them'. Is is above all an appeal to common humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54241002717528,"sku":"9780141036908","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141036908_6108c56e-5597-4793-8fa8-37b5fa078a69.jpg?v=1770224441","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/undivided-past","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}