Combing of History

Name: Combing of History
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ISBN: 9780226112770

ISBN-10: 0226112772

ISBN-13: 9780226112770

Edition: 1994

Authors: David William Cohen

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How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history. His investigation uncovers the conventions and paradigms that govern historical knowledge and historical texts and reveals the economic, social, and political forces at play in the production of history. Drawing from a wide range of examples, including African legal proceedings, German and American museum exhibits, Native American commemorations, public and academic debates, and scholarly research, David William Cohen explores the "walls…

Book details

List price: $101.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/15/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 290
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Preface



The Production of History



Namuluta v. Kazibwe



The Economy of Debate



Silences of the Living, Orations of the Dead5.Pim's Doorway



Ditmar's Revenge



Tisdale Divide



The Constitution of Expertise


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index