Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations - Couverture souple

Bevilacqua, Alexander; Clark, Frederic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 022660120X ISBN 13 : 9780226601205

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2019

Synopsis

If the vibrancy on display in Thinking in the Past Tense is any indication, the study of intellectual history is enjoying an unusually fertile period in both Europe and North America. This collection of conversations with leading scholars brims with insights from such diverse fields as the history of science, the reception of classical antiquity, book history, global philology, and the study of material culture. The eight practitioners interviewed here specialize in the study of the early modern period (c. 1400–1800), for the last forty years a crucial laboratory for testing new methods in intellectual history. The lively conversations don’t simply reveal these scholars’ depth and breadth of thought; they also disclose the kind of trade secrets that historians rarely elucidate in print. Thinking in the Past Tense offers students and professionals alike a rare tactile understanding of the practice of intellectual history. Here is a collectively drawn portrait of the historian’s craft today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alexander Bevilacqua is assistant professor of history at Williams College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 022660120X
• ISBN 13: 9780226601205
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
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• Personne responsable: non disponible