Secret History and Historical Consciousness: From Renaissance to Romanticism.

by Peter Burke

The leading cultural historian Professor Peter Burke offers here several innovative approaches to cultural history. A key topic, from which the volume derives its name, is 'secret history', a phrase that came into use in the later seventeenth century to describe a new genre of historical writing by authors who claimed to be able to go behind the scenes and tell the public the real reasons for important events. The volume is introduced by an important...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911204386
• ISBN13: 9781911204381
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"