Societies and punishment
All societies experience crime, but punishment reflects the very nature of a polity.
Lynn Hunt, Inventing Human Rights, (W. W. Norton, 2008), 139.
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quotes on historiography
Tag: Lynn Hunt
March 11, 2015
January 27, 2015
The definitive answer?
It may seem that the past is by definition over, but the past is always changing because historians and the purpose of history are changing too.
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Every new age looks for an understanding of its time, and without history it would not have one.
Lynn Hunt, Writing History in the Global Era, (Norton, 2014), 11.
