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035 _a(OCoLC)1091005727
050 _aD16.16
_b.R67 2019
100 1 _aRosenberg, Alexander,
_d1946-
245 1 0 _aHow history gets things wrong :
_bthe neuroscience of our addiction to stories /
_cAlex Rosenberg.
260 _aCambridge, Mass. :
_bThe MIT Press,
_c2019.
300 _a289 p., [8] p. of plates :
_bill. (some col.), maps.
500 _aReprint. Originally published: 2018.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aBesotted 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.
650 4 _aPsychohistory.
650 4 _aCognitive neuroscience.
650 4 _aHistory, Modern
_xPsychological aspects.
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