Place and Time: On the Interplay of Historical Points of View.
A historian's account of a past action must take into account the agent's point of view, and that point of view may differ radically from that of the historian. This difference of points of view, I argue, may extend to the very place and time of the action in question. In this paper, by exploring th...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 40; no. 4; pp. 153 - 168 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2001
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