Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History As Culture and Vice Versa

Name: Apologies to Thucydides Understanding History As Culture and Vice Versa
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ISBN: 9780226103822

ISBN-10: 022610382X

ISBN-13: 9780226103822

Edition: 2004

Authors: Marshall Sahlins, Marshall Sahlins

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Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history—including the idea that Western history is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a groundbreaking new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history.Sahlins begins by confronting Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War with an analogous "Polynesian War," the fight for the domination of the Fiji Islands (1843-55) between a great sea power (like Athens) and a great land power (like Sparta). Sahlins draws parallels between the…

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List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/11/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Marshall Sahlins is the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Author's Note


Introduction



The Polynesian War: With Apologies to Thucydides



Culture and Agency in History



The Culture of an Assassination


Bibliography


Index