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050 00 $aD422$b.J84 2008
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100 1 $aJudt, Tony.
245 10 $aReappraisals :$breflections on the forgotten twentieth century /$cTony Judt.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2008.
300 $axiv, 448 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aThe accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a comparably accelerated amnesia. The twentieth century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 is so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost touch with our immediate past even before we have begun to make sense of it. In less than a generation, the headlong advance of globalization, with the geographical shifts of emphasis and influence it brings in its wake, has altered the structures of thought that had been essentially unchanged since the European industrial revolution. Quite literally, we don't know where we came from. From the history of the neglect and recovery of the Holocaust and the challenge of "evil" in the understanding of the European past to the rise and fall of the "state" in public affairs and the displacement of history by "heritage," Judt takes us beyond what we think we know to show us how we came to know it and reveals how many aspects of our history have been sacrificed in the triumph of mythmaking over understanding, collective identity over truth, and denial over memory.--From amazon.com.
650 0 $aHistory, Modern$y20th century.
650 0 $aTwentieth century.
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