Meaning and representation in history /:

History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it w...

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Weitere Verfasser: Rüsen, Jörn
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
Schriftenreihe:Making sense of history ; v. 7.
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Zusammenfassung:History has always been more than just the past. It involves a relationship between past and present, perceived, on the one hand, as a temporal chain of events and, on the other, symbolically as an interpretation that gives meaning to these events through varying cultural orientations, charging it with norms and values, hopes and fears. And it is memory that links the present to the past and therefore has to be seen as the most fundamental procedure of the human mind that constitutes history: memory and historical thinking are the door of the human mind to experience. At the same time, it t.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 274 pages) : illustrations.
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.
ISBN:9780857455550
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