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Index
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About The History Manifesto
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About the Authors
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: The bonfire of the humanities?
1: Going forward by looking back: the rise of the longue durée
1. Thinking about destiny and free will
2. Counterfactual thinking
3. Utopian thinking
2: The short past: or, the retreat of the longue durée
3: The long and the short Climate change, governance, and inequality since the 1970s
Long-term thinking about the climate
Thinking about international governance
Inequality
The proliferation of mythology
4: Big questions, big data
New tools
The rise of big data
Invisible archives
How then should we think about the future and the past?
How the age of big data will change the university
War between the experts
The research university is reborn … with an ethical slant
Conclusion: the public future of the past
Notes
Introduction: the bonfire of the humanities?
Chapter 1 Going forward by looking back: the rise of the longue durée
Chapter 2 The short past: or, the retreat of the longue durée
Chapter 3 The long and the short: climate change, governance, and inequality since the 1970s
Chapter 4 Big questions, big data
Conclusion: the public future of the past
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