“In this book, prize-winning historian Jeremy Black considers both popular and academic approaches to the past. His focus is on the interaction between the presentation of the past and current circumstances, on how history is used to validate one view of the present or to discredit another, and on readings of the past that unite and those that divide.”
“Refreshing . . . Black eschews 'Eurocentricism' and includes considerable material on other areas of the world that one does not usually find in such a work. Typical of Black’s writing, there is much to learn in the numerous small asides throughout the text. Taken together these form an impressive whole.”
— Spencer C. Tucker, VMI
“Remarkable both for its geographical scope and historical scale, and for its command of scholarship on a breathtaking range of subjects. I can't imagine another historian who could attempt such an ambitious work or pull it off with such aplomb.”
— William Gibson, Oxford Brookes University
“Because of the strengths of Clio's Battles, all working academics and graduate students in the discipline should read it. All practicing historians should take Black's views—and his warnings—seriously.”
— History: Reviews of New Books
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