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Threads and traces : true, false, fictive / Carlo Ginzburg ; translated by Anne C. Tedeschi and John Tedeschi.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ginzburg, Carlo.
- Standardized Title:
- Filo e le tracce. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historiography--Philosophy.
- Historiography.
- Literature and history.
- History--Errors, inventions, etc.
- History.
- Truth.
- Collective memory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (336 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburg's latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1. Description and Citation
- 2. The Conversion of the Jews of Minorca (a.d. 417-418)
- 3. Montaigne, Cannibals, and Grottoes
- 4. Proofs and Possibilities: Postscript to Natalie Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre
- 5. Paris, 1647: A Dialogue on Fiction and History
- 6. The Europeans Discover (or Rediscover) the Shamans
- 7. Tolerance and Commerce: Auerbach Reads Voltaire
- 8. Anacharsis Interrogates the Natives: A New Reading of an Old Best Seller
- 9. Following the Tracks of Israël Bertuccio
- 10. The Bitter Truth: Stendhal's Challenge to Historians
- 11. Representing the Enemy: On the French Prehistory of the Protocols
- 12. Just One Witness: The Extermination of the Jews and the Principle of Reality
- 13. Details, Early Plans, Microanalysis: Thoughts on a Book by Siegfried Kracauer
- 14. Microhistory: Two or Three Things That I Know about It
- 15. Witches and Shamans
- Notes
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613291844
- 9781283291842
- 1283291843
- 9780520949843
- 0520949846
- OCLC:
- 759491878
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