Ideas roadshow. Eating one's own : examining civil war : a conversation with David Armitage

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David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, takes a look at the notion of civil war, tracing it from the ancient Romans through to the American Civil War and righ...

David Armitage, Lloyd C. Blankfein Professor of History at Harvard University, takes a look at the notion of civil war, tracing it from the ancient Romans through to the American Civil War and right up to modern insurgency movements. A salient feature of Armitage's work is a strong focus on etymology as it relates to our understanding of how people interpreted (or misinterpreted) and perceived events in history which results in a fascinating exploration of how our understanding of various concepts has been prejudiced by past societies and past beliefs that we might not even be aware of, and how they, in turn, go on to influence other societies; and how this cumulative process frames our understanding of these ideas.

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