Twilight of history / Shlomo Sand ; translated by David Fernbach.
Twilight of history / Shlomo Sand ; translated by David Fernbach.
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Publisher
London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017.
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G 2017/2238
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English
French
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Physical content
xxvii, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Preface: Studying History to Free Ourselves from It -- Undoing the Myth of Origins -- Escape from Politics? -- Probing the Truth of the Past -- Abandoning National Time.
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Publisher
London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, 2017.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"The acclaimed and controversial historian turns his critical gaze on the writing of history today. Drawing on his four decades as a professional historian, Shlomo Sand interrogates the academic discipline of history, whose origin lay in the need for a national ideology. In the last few decades, traditional history has begun to fragment, yet only t...
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Twilight of history / Shlomo Sand ; translated by David Fernbach.
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"First published as Crépuscule de l'histoire, Editions Flammarion, 2015"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/2238
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74VKVaJ60pEZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVaJ60pEZ
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ISBN
9781786630223 hardback
1786630222 hardback
DDC
901
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991024101002702626
