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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961459803321

Titolo

Experiments in rethinking history / / edited by Alun Munslow and Robert Rosenstone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-134-41800-0

1-134-41801-9

0-203-68364-1

1-280-07875-8

0-203-64377-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MunslowAlun <1947->

RosenstoneRobert A

Disciplina

901

Soggetti

History - Philosophy

History - Methodology

Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: practice and theory; Introduction: theory and practice; Self-reflexive; When I was a child, I danced as a child, but now that I am old, I think about salvation: Concepcin Gonzlez and a past that would not stay put; Writing, rewriting the beach: an essay; Reconditioning history: adapting knowledge from the past into realities of the present; Not a ~Kodak moment~: picturing Asian Americans; New voices; Impressions of the Somme: an experiment; Antonio Foscarini in the City of Crossed Destinies

Narrating a southern tragedy: historical facts and historical fictionsReconstructing the voice of a noblewoman of the time of Peter the Great: Daria Mikhailovna Menshikova: an exercise in (pseudo)autobiographical writing; A prologue for La Dame d'Esprit: the biography of the marquise Du Chtelet; Blackout; Miniatures; Dictator in a dumpster: thoughts on history and garbage; The abattoir of the prairie; Liberace: behind



Sommario/riassunto

History is a narrative discourse, full of unfinished stories. This collection of innovative and experimental pieces of historical writing shows there are fascinating and important new ways of thinking and writing about the past.