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All history is contemporary why? |
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Answer» Answer: the Italian philosopher BENEDETTO Croce once SAID, meaning, no doubt, that all HISTORY was written from the point of view of contemporary preoccupations. Inevitably, perhaps, we look at the past through the eyes of the present. Even so, until very RECENTLY, contemporary history was REGARDED with suspicion by the professionals. When A J P Taylor read history at Oxford in 1920s. |
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