This meditation on conceptions of history traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, the book reveals the strands of continuity that have always characterized historiography.
| ISBN: | 9780231075916 |
| Publication date: | 27th September 1996 |
| Author: | Jacques Le Goff |
| Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas |