TY - BOOK AU - David William Cohen AU - David William Cohen TI - The combing of history SN - 9780226112787 U1 - 901 COH PY - 1994/// CY - Chicago PB - : University of Chicago Press KW - History KW - History--Methodology KW - United States -- History N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -