Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged Military history and her quest for knowledge

and her quest for knowledge

and despite her family’s history

wealth and poverty

The last thing she's looking for is romance

Histories of Nations: How Their Identities Were Forged Military history and her quest for knowledgePeter Furtado National history is a vital part of national self definition. Most books on the history of the world try to impose a uniform narrative, written usually from a single writer's point of view. Histories of Nations is different: it presents 28 essays written by a leading historian as a 'self portrait' of his or her native country, defining the characteristics that embody its sense of nationhood. The countries have been selected to represent