How history gets things wrong : the neuroscience of our addiction to stories / Alex Rosenberg.
Rosenberg, Alexander, 1946-
How history gets things wrong : the neuroscience of our addiction to stories / Alex Rosenberg. - 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Besotted by stories -- How many times can the German Army play the same trick? -- Why ever did Hitler declare war on the United States? : That's easy to explain, too easy -- Is the theory of mind wired in? -- The natural history of historians -- What exactly was the Kaiser thinking? -- Can neuroscience tell us what Talleyrand meant? -- Talleyrand's betrayal : in inside story -- Jeopardy! "question" : "It shows the theory of mind to be completely wrong" -- The future of an illusion -- Henry Kissinger mind reads his way through the Congress of Vienna -- Guns, germs, steel--and all that -- The Gulag Archipelago and the uses of history -- The back(non)story.
0262537990 9780262537995
Psychohistory.
Cognitive neuroscience.
History, Modern--Psychological aspects.
How history gets things wrong : the neuroscience of our addiction to stories / Alex Rosenberg. - 289 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Besotted by stories -- How many times can the German Army play the same trick? -- Why ever did Hitler declare war on the United States? : That's easy to explain, too easy -- Is the theory of mind wired in? -- The natural history of historians -- What exactly was the Kaiser thinking? -- Can neuroscience tell us what Talleyrand meant? -- Talleyrand's betrayal : in inside story -- Jeopardy! "question" : "It shows the theory of mind to be completely wrong" -- The future of an illusion -- Henry Kissinger mind reads his way through the Congress of Vienna -- Guns, germs, steel--and all that -- The Gulag Archipelago and the uses of history -- The back(non)story.
0262537990 9780262537995
Psychohistory.
Cognitive neuroscience.
History, Modern--Psychological aspects.