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History and Memory
Jacques Le Goff
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Description for History and Memory
Paperback. In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBAH; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
-- Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
-- Gerald Prince, University of Pennsylvania
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231075916
SKU
V9780231075916
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About Jacques Le Goff
Jaques Le Goff is the Director of Studies and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Among his other books are Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages andConstructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology.
Reviews for History and Memory
Historiography has its fashions, and this is a clear and persuasive portrayal of a present trend away from the fraternization of history with philosophy, theology, literature and the history of the plastic arts, toward a flirtation with politics and the social sciences...A fine study. The Historian