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On the whole, Why History? is a marvel of both clarity and erudition...the footnotes and bibliography...are treasure troves and I found myself repeatedly stopping to take note of an essay or monograph I'd not run across. * Professor Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Reviews in History *

These works of outstanding scholarship are of value to anyone curious to consider the uses and pitfalls of history in a present forever parasitic on the past. * Alexandre Leskanich, TLS * On the whole, Why History? is a marvel of both clarity and erudition...the footnotes and bibliography...are treasure troves and I found myself repeatedly stopping to take note of an essay or monograph I'd not run across. * Professor Daniel Woolf, Queen's University, Reviews in History *

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Donald Bloxham has taught at Edinburgh University since 2001. He was appointed Professor of Modern History in 2007 and given the established Richard Pares Chair of History in 2011. Beyond his work on the history and philosophy of the discipline of history, he is a specialist in the study of genocide and the punishment of perpetrators of genocide. His book, The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians (Oxford, 2005), won the Raphael Lemkin Prize for genocide scholarship. He has also been a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize and is currently on a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship.

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