The Social Circulation of the Past

The Social Circulation of the Past
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Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 454
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ISBN-10 : 0199257787
ISBN-13 : 9780199257782
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Book Synopsis The Social Circulation of the Past by : Daniel R. Woolf

Download or read book The Social Circulation of the Past written by Daniel R. Woolf and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woolf details here the ways in which English men and women first became seriously aware of and interested in their own and the world's past. Previous works have focused exclusively on the writings of a small minority of historians, yet, through using a variety of manuscript and printed sources, this study examines the wider 'historical culture' within which historical and antiquarian studies could emerge.


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