David William Cohen creator David William Cohen text History--Methodology-United States -- History. xxu Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1994 monographic eng

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xxv, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm 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. 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. /David William Cohen History 901 COH 9780226112787 International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 180918 20180918101252.0