ISSN:
0963-9268
Source:
Cambridge Journals Digital Archives
Topics:
Architecture, Civil Engineering, Surveying
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History
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Sociology
Notes:
History is a tricky business, if only because history, as a phenomenon of the present, subject to scrutiny and manipulation, does not exist: it is, in a very real sense, made up. The study of the history of historical writing is a doubly tricky business because it is not merely what really happened in the past which determined the way people acted and wrote history, but also the way in which people perceived what happened. These complications require that one not only take into account what historians have said but also their perceptions of reality in their own times and the way that perception defined their conception of what was real in the past. Definition becomes the crux of the matter, for the way our predecessors wrote urban history depended upon their definition of their subject matter.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0963926800002480
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