Ideas Roadshow Conversations - Embracing Complexity

Ebook

A Conversation with David Cannadine

This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and eminent historian David Cannadine, Princeton University. In this in-depth conversation David examines the societal role of historians while urging us to reject the simplifying distortions of the historical record that we are regularly presented with.

This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, Imposing Order, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter:

1. Finding One’s Historical Feet
2. The Art of Biography
3. The Undivided Past
4. Transcending Parochialism
5. Categorical Examinations
6. Historical Broadening
7. What to Do, Part I
8. What to Do, Part II

About Ideas Roadshow Conversations Series (100 books):

Presented in an accessible, conversational format, Ideas Roadshow books not only explore frontline academic research featuring world-leading researchers, including 3 Nobel Laureates, but also reveal the inspirations and personal journeys behind the research. Howard Burton holds a PhD in physics and an MA in philosophy, and was the Founding Director of Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.