The Birth of the Past |
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| Author:
| Schiffman, Zachary S. |
| Foreword by:
| Grafton, Anthony T. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4214-2278-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2017 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $80.99 |
Book Description:
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How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world. Today we automatically distinguish ......
How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world. Today we automatically distinguish ......