Short description:

This book provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and general readers who wish to put current debates on bias, the politicization of history, and threats to history makers into global and historical perspective.

Long description:

History from Loss challenges the common thought that "history is written by the winners" and explores how history-makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety.

A distinguished group of historians from around the globe offer an introduction to different history-makers? lives and ideas, and important extracts from their works which highlight various meanings of loss: from physical ailments to social ostracism, exile to imprisonment, and from dispossession to potential execution. Throughout the volume consideration of the information "bubbles" of different times and places helps to show how information has been weaponized to cause harm. In this way, the text helps to put current debates about the biases and weaponization of platforms such as social media into global and historical perspectives. In combination, the chapters build a picture of history from loss which is global, sustained, and anything but a simple mirror of history made by victors. The volume also includes an Introduction and Afterword, which draw out the key meanings of history from loss and which offer ideas for further exploration.

History from Loss provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and general readers who wish to put current debates on bias, the politicization of history, and threats to history-makers into global and historical perspectives.

The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

Introduction; Chapter 1. Thucydides (ca. 460-339 BCE); Chapter 2. Ammianus Marcellinus (ca 330-391 CE); Chapter 3. Gildas (fl. 5th or 6th century); Chapter 4. Snorri Sturluson (1179-1241); Chapter 5. Atâ-Malek Joveyni (1226-1283); Chapter 6. Niccol? Machiavelli (1469-1527); Chapter 7. Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (c 1550-after 1615); Chapter 8. Walter Ralegh (c. 1552-1618); Chapter 9. Chimalpahin (b. 1579); Chapter 10. John Milton (1608-1674); Chapter 11. Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674); Chapter 12. Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681); Chapter 13. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745); Chapter 14. Peter Oliver (1713-1791); Chapter 15. Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet (1743-94); Chapter 16. Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti (1753-1825); Chapter 17. Mary Hays (1759?1843); Chapter 18. Germaine de Staël (1766-1817); Chapter 19. Jane Austen (1775-1817); Chapter 20. Andrés Bello (1781-1865); Chapter 21. François-Xavier Garneau (1809-1866); Chapter 22. Edward A. Pollard (1832-1872); Chapter 23. Gabriel Dumont (1837-1906); Chapter 24. Gerhard Ritter (1888-1967); Chapter 25. Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964); Chapter 26. Chen Yinke (1890-1969); Chapter 27. Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova (1897-1957); Chapter 28. Emanuel Ringelblum (1900-1944) and Oyneg Shabes; Chapter 29. Romila Thapar (1931-); Chapter 30. Jakelin Troy (1960-); Afterword