by Greg Dening (Author)
For Greg Dening, history saturates every moment of our cultural and personal existence. Throughout this text the author shows his awareness that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable. He asserts all histories to be culturally crafted artifacts, commensurate with folk tales, stage plays, or films. Whether derived from logbooks and letters, or displayed on music hall stages and Hollywood back lots, history is in essence our making sense of what has and continues to happen, creating for us a sense of our cultural and individual selves.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
Edition: 2nd
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 12 Sep 1996
ISBN 10: 0226142981
ISBN 13: 9780226142982