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The latest catastrophe : history, the present, the contemporary
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The latest catastrophe : history, the present, the contemporary / Henry Rousso ; translated by Jane Marie Todd.
ISBN
9780226165370 (ebook) :
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Translated from the French.
Previously issued in print: 2016.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 7, 2017).
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Summary
The writing of recent history tends to be deeply marked by conflict, by personal and collective struggles rooted in horrific traumas and bitter controversies. Frequently, today's historians can find themselves researching the same events that they themselves lived through. This book reflects on the concept and practices of what is called 'contemporary history', a history of the present time, and identifies special tensions in the field between knowledge and experience, distance and proximity, and objectivity and subjectivity.
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Chicago scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 30, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Specialized.
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