Threads and Traces by Carlo Ginzburg
What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? How do we grapple with the historical conventions that inform, in different ways, all written documents? This title looks at these questions raised by decades of post-structuralism.
"No other living historian approaches the range of [Ginzburg's] eruditionEvery page of Threads and Traces, his latest work to appear in English, offers an illustration of it." -- Perry Anderson London Review Of Books "Ginzburg's range is remarkable ... rich in references to and insights about diverse historical perspectives." Publishers Weekly "A collection of essays by the profoundly original, intellectually wide-ranging, Italian-Jewish historian Carlo Ginzburg ... an illuminating collection of chapters, deftly translated from the original Italian by Anne C. and John Tedeschi." -- Benjamin Ivry Forward "These essays humanely and generously explore the question of how history ought to be written." -- Jonathan Beckman The Literary Review "Surprising pace, intellectual range, and learned discourse is typical throughout the book... Artfully constructed essays." -- Raymond Grew, University of Michigan Jrnl Of Interdisciplinary History "This is a brilliant text, the product of a scholar of rare breadth and knowledge." -- Ben McDonald, University of Melbourne Melbourne Historical Jrnl
Carlo Ginzburg is retired from Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy). He is the author of numerous books that have been translated into English including The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780520274488 |
| ISBN 10 | 0520274482 |
| Title | Threads and Traces |
| Author | Carlo Ginzburg |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of California Press |
| Year published | 2012-01-09 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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