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'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads

'Enlightening and thrilling. History for Tomorrow tells us who we are…

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Roman Krznaric, looks at the lessons of the past in an innovative way, identifying inspiring examples of community action across the past millennium as options for tackling the wicked problems of our own times. This is fast-paced and thought-provoking analysis from a scholar determined not to retreat in the face of our contemporary crises.

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