The Birth of the Past |
|
| Author:
| Schiffman, Zachary S. |
| Foreword by:
| Grafton, Anthony T. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4214-0278-9 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2011 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
|
| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $70.00 |
Book Description:
|
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? Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in The Birth of the Past, his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world.Today we automatically distinguish between past and present, labeling ......
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? Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in The Birth of the Past, his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world.Today we automatically distinguish between past and present, labeling ......