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

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Routledge, 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Disciplina: 901
• Soggetto topico: History - Philosophy; History - Methodology; Historiography
• Altri autori: MunslowAlun <1947-> RosenstoneRobert A
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Experiments in rethinking history
• ISBN: 1-134-41800-0; 1-134-41801-9; 0-203-68364-1; 1-280-07875-8; 0-203-64377-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961459803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II