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Apologies to Thucydides

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

Apologies to Thucydides

By Marshall Sahlins

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About the book

Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid, applicable to all societies at all times. Here, however, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides' history with a groundbreaking book that shows how different cultures develop different modes of historical production. Ranging from the Peloponnesian War to the nineteenth-century fight over the Fiji Islan...Show more

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9780226103822

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2014

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1

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Apologies to Thucydides

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Paperback

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