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History

The Undivided Past: History Beyond our Differences by David Cannadine

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October 2013, no. 355

The Undivided Past: History Beyond our Differences by David Cannadine

Penguin, $45 hb, 340 pp, 9781846141324

History

The Undivided Past: History Beyond our Differences by David Cannadine

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October 2013, no. 355

David Cannadine is a distinguished transatlantic historian, the author of books on modern Britain and its empire, the biographer of G.M. Trevelyan and Andrew Mellon, and he recently wrote a perceptive account of the persistent anxiety over school history. An iconoclastic thinker and urbane stylist, Cannadine excels in the extended essay that overturns a conventional interpretation. These qualities are evident in this book, which derives from the Trevelyan Lectures he delivered at Cambridge in 2007.

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Stuart Macintyre

Stuart Macintyre (1947–2021) was an award-winning academic and popular historian. Born and educated in Melbourne, he received his PhD from the University of Cambridge before returning to Australia in 1979. Throughout a long and distinguished career, Stuart authored many award-winning monographs and references titles, including The Oxford History Australian History, Volume 4 (1986), The Reds: The Communist Party of Australia from origins to illegality (1999) and with Anna Clark, The History Wars (2003).

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