The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing...(展开全部)

The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since. Throughout the twentieth century, argues Left-Wing...(展开全部)

Enzo Traverso is Susan and Barton Winokur Professor of the Humanities at Cornell University. His books include The End of Jewish Modernity (2016); Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914–1945 (2015); The Origins of Nazi Violence (2003); and Understanding the Nazi Genocide: Marxism After Auschwitz (1999).

In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

"Historiography has its fashions, and this is a clear and persuasive portrayal of a present trend away from the fraternization of history with philosophy, theology, literature, and the history of the plastic arts, toward a flirtation with politics and the social sciences....A More... fine study."

In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.

"Historiography has its fashions, and this is a clear and persuasive portrayal of a present trend away from the fraternization of history with philosophy, theology, literature, and the history of the plastic arts, toward a flirtation with politics and the social sciences....A More... fine study."

杰里米·M.布莱克，埃克塞特大学的历史学教授。他写过100多本书，包括《为美国而战：北美独立战争，1519?–?1871》（IUP，2011）和《战争和文化转变》。《地缘政治学与对统治地位的追逐》《知识的力量：信息与技术如何造就现代世界》《战争与技术》2008年，布莱克获得了军事历史协会颁发的“Samuel Eliot Morison Prize”（塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖）。

杰里米·M.布莱克，埃克塞特大学的历史学教授。他写过100多本书，包括《为美国而战：北美独立战争，1519?–?1871》（IUP，2011）和《战争和文化转变》。《地缘政治学与对统治地位的追逐》《知识的力量：信息与技术如何造就现代世界》《战争与技术》2008年，布莱克获得了军事历史协会颁发的“Samuel Eliot Morison Prize”（塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖）。

How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The contributors explore this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking historical change and memory as key themes, they offer a broad study...(展开全部)