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1 online resource (x, 245 pages) |
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text file |
| Note |
"Originally published as La dernière catastrophe : L'histoire, le présent, le contemporain. © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 2012"--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-238) and index. |
| Summary |
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, especially their legacies of political violence. Focusing on France, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, he shows that for contemporary historians, the recent past has become a problem to be solved. No longer unfolding as a series of traditions to be respected or a set of knowledge to be transmitted and built upon, history today is treated as a constant act of mourning or memory, an attempt to atone. Historians must also negotiate with strife within this field, as older scholars who may have lived through events clash with younger historians who also claim to understand the experiences. Ultimately, The Latest Catastrophe shows how historians, at times against their will, have themselves become actors in a history still being made.-- Provided by Publisher. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "You weren't there!" -- Contemporaneity in the past -- War and the time after -- Contemporaneity at the heart of historicity -- Our time -- Conclusion: In the face of the tragic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Subject |
Historiography.
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Historiography. |
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History, Modern -- Historiography.
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History, Modern -- Historiography. |
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy. |
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HISTORY -- Study & Teaching. |
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Gegenwart. |
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Geschichtsphilosophie. |
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Geschichtsschreibung. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Todd, Jane Marie, 1957- translator.
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| Added Title |
Dernière catastrophe. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015095263
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rousso, Henry, 1954- Dernière catastrophe. English. Latest catastrophe. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016 9780226165066 (DLC) 2015028395 (OCoLC)915309904 |
| ISBN |
9780226165370 (electronic book) |
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022616537X (electronic book) |
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9780226165066 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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022616506X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226165233 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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022616523X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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