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Does history contradict itself? Does it suddenly retrace its steps? For several decades, history has brought about surprising reversals that dramatically shift our conceptions of the world, disrupt our plans for society, destroy our hopes, and undermine our confidence in the future.
According to...
Does history contradict itself? Does it suddenly retrace its steps? For several decades, history has brought about surprising reversals that dramatically shift our conceptions of the world, disrupt our plans for society, destroy our hopes, and undermine our confidence in the future.
According to renowned historian Marc Ferro, there are 4 principal movements that left their mark on the 20th century: the shifts from economic growth to recession, the failure of communism’s expansion in the USSR and Eastern Europe, the return of the Nation-State coupled with the return of religious extremism leading to fundamentalism, and the failure to eradicate all diseases and epidemics.
Ferro analyzes these phenomena with clarity and reveals the reversals they caused which have created our contemporary society. In doing so, he offers a new way for us to understand history.
Marc Ferro is the director of EHESS (France’s most prestigious graduate school of Social Sciences). He is the author of La Révolution de 1917, La Grande Guerre, Cinéma et Histoire, Pétain, Le choc de l’Islam. With NiL éditions he published Les Tabous de L’Histoire (2002), and with Robert Laffont Le livre noire du colonialisme (2003), and Ils étaient sept hommes en guerre (2007).
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