The Latest Catastrophe: History, the Present, the Contemporary
Henry Rousso
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Paperback. Translator(s): Todd, Jane Marie. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
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. Henry Rousso addresses the rise of contemporary history and the relations of present-day societies to their past, ... Read more
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. Henry Rousso addresses the rise of contemporary history and the relations of present-day societies to their past, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226165233
SKU
V9780226165233
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About Henry Rousso
Henry Rousso is a senior researcher with the Institut d'histoire du temps pr sent at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Paris. He is the author or editor of many books, including The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France since 1944. Jane Marie Todd is the translator of many books, including The Mountain: A Political History from ... Read more
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A pioneer in the study of memory, Rousso interrogates the emergence in the twentieth century of the new field of contemporary history. Locating the roots of this concern in a series of catastrophic harms that threatened an earlier sense of identity and continuity with the past, Rousso takes us beyond memory and into the very nature of historical thought.
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