The Combing of History

by David William Cohen

Book Overview

How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history. His investigation uncovers the conventions and paradigms that govern historical knowledge and historical texts and reveals the economic, social, and political forces at play in the production of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226112780
• ISBN13: 9780226112787
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"