History and Memory (Revised)

Author/Contributor(s):	Le Goff, Jacques
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	08/30/1996
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.