History Out of Joint - Essays on the Use and Abuse of History

Informationen zum Autor Sande Cohen teaches in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. Klappentext Sande Cohen considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. Zusammenfassung Considers the ways in which historical narratives summon up a past and lay down a future in the ever-multiplying intellectual debates of contemporary public culture. This book looks at some struggles to control public history! examining popular newspaper accounts of events - misrepresentation from the "bottom up" - in geopolitics and art.

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• Authors: Sande Cohen, Sande (California Institute of the Arts) Cohen
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.12.2005
• EAN: 9780801882142
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8214-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society; Parallax: Re-Visions of Cultur; Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society; Parallax: Re-Visions of Cultur
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History