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The combing of history /David William Cohen

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994.Description: xxv, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226112787
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 901 COH
Contents:
1. The Production of History -- 2. Namuluta v. Kazibwe -- 3. The Economy of Debate -- 4. Silences of the Living, Orations of the Dead -- 5. Pim's Doorway -- 6. Ditmar's Revenge -- 7. Tisdale Divide -- 8. The Constitution of Expertise.
Summary: How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? This exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history, revealing the economic, social and political forces at play in history's production.
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1. The Production of History --
2. Namuluta v. Kazibwe --
3. The Economy of Debate --
4. Silences of the Living, Orations of the Dead --
5. Pim's Doorway --
6. Ditmar's Revenge --
7. Tisdale Divide --
8. The Constitution of Expertise.


How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? This exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history, revealing the economic, social and political forces at play in history's production.

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