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Title Composing useful pasts : history as contemporary politics / edited by Edmund E. Jacobitti
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 176 pages) : illustrations
Contents Imagining etymology (as a type of evidence and a trope of argument) / John S. Nelson -- Poetic history: historical experience, Nietzschean genealogy, and Susan Daitch's L.C. / David W. Price -- "Gigantic shadows of futurity": history and politics in Shelley's Defence of poetry / Jacqueline LeBlanc -- Painting out the past: Jacques-Louis David's attempt to begin history again / Stephen Brown -- The power of "Kulturgeschichte": 100 years in the house that Jacob built: the Italian renaissance / Carole Collier Frick
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject History -- Philosophy.
Historiography.
Truth.
Politics, Practical.
truth.
historiography.
HISTORY -- General.
Historiography
History -- Philosophy
Politics, Practical
Truth
Geschiedschrijving.
Tijdgeest.
History & Archaeology.
History - General.
Form Electronic book
Author Jacobitti, Edmund E., 1938-
LC no. 99088325
ISBN 0585424950
9780585424958