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...
| Publicado en: | Rethinking History Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 465 - 494 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2007
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