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Placing the past: 'Groundwork' for a spatial theory of history.

This essay presents an argument that the past is the set of all places made by human action. The past cannot exist in time: only in space. Histories representing the past represent the places (topoi) of human action. Knowledge of the past, therefore, is literally cartographic: a mapping of the place...

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Published in:Rethinking History Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 465 - 494
Main Author: Ethington, PhilipJ.
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2007
Subjects:
Human behavior
Sociology of time
Human acts (Ethics)
History
Space
Theory of knowledge
Philosophy
Cartography
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