Community Quote by C.Wright Mills

The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its…

— C. Wright Mills

“P3- neither the life of an individual nor the history off a society can be understood without understanding both”

— C.Wright Mills

“Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.”

— Sara Sheridan

“It is a story of utopian dreams and belief in the future, but also one that involves a critique of modernity.”

— Sverker Sörlin

“p4- the history that now effects everyman is world history”

— C.Wright Mills

“In these days, when all things and memories of the past are at length become not only subservient to, but submerged by, the matters…

— Ptahhotep

“Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.”

— Christopher Hill

“History shapes the lives of all men, women and children ... sometimes unraveling humanity into an undesired mess.”

— Lynda I Fisher

“History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives”

— Dexter Perkins

“If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas.”

— Nilofer Merchant

“The appropriation of history, the historicization of the past, the narrativization of society, all of which give the novel its force, include the accumulation…

— Edward W. Said

“A key theme is that human history, behavior and reality are governed not by what we know but by what we believe.”

— Richard B. Spence