“In America, much foreign policy seems contrived to be an exercise in political theory with no attention to history whatsoever. Yet there's a great reverence for history - though it's history as thumb-sucking, security blanket-nibbling self-congratulation.” SelfSeemsAmericaPoliticalAttentionSecurityPolicyTheoryExerciseReverenceForeign PolicyCongratulationsThumbsBlanketPolitical TheoryNibbling Author:Simon Schama
“To collude in the minimisation of British history on the grounds of its imagined irrelevance to our rebranded national future, or from a suspicion that it does no more than recycle patriotic pieties unsuited to a global marketplace, would be an act of appallingly self-inflicted collective memory loss.” DoeSelfWould BeMemoriesLossHistoryBritishCollectivesPatrioticSuspicionMarketplacePietyBritish HistoryMemory LossIrrelevanceSelf InflictedCollective Memory Book:A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603 Source: A History of Britain: At the edge of the world? 3000 BC-AD 1603
“These men were very much in the minority, but of course, being the 'Elect', they expected to be in a minority - the party of redemption. In fact they glorified in the slightness of their numbers, the self-purifying troop of Gideon's army... stormtroopers in the front line of the Reformation.” MenSelfFactsCoursesLinesPartyNumbersHistoryFrontsArmyExpectedRedemptionMinoritiesReformationBritish HistoryGideonPurifyingStormtroopers Author:Simon Schama
