Secret History and Historical Consciousness: From Renaissance to Romanticism. 1911204386, 9781911204381

The leading cultural historian Professor Peter Burke offers here several innovative approaches to cultural history. A ke

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Secret History and Historical Consciousness: From Renaissance to Romanticism.
1911204386, 9781911204381

With explosive interest in Romantic science and theories of mind and a renewed sense of the period’s porousness to the w

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This book offers the first ever comparative study of historical consciousness among young citizens from different region

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This book offers the first ever comparative study of historical consciousness among young citizens from different region

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At any time, basic assumptions about language have a direct effect on the writing of history. The structure of language

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Theorizing Historical Consciousness sets various theoretical approaches to the study of historical consciousness side-by

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The last several decades have witnessed an explosion of new empirical research into representations of the past and the

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A generally acknowledged characteristic of modern life, namely the temporalization of experience, inextricable from our

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Family history is one of the most widely practiced forms of public history around the globe, especially in settler migra

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