Imperfect Histories

by Ann Rigney

Imperfect Histories puts "imperfection" at the heart of a theory of historical representation. Ann Rigney shows how historical writing involves dealing with intractable subjects that resist our efforts to know and to shape them. Those who write history, she says, engage in an ongoing struggle to match up what they find relevant in the past with the information and interpretive models at their disposal. Chronic dissatisfaction is at the heart...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801438616
• ISBN13: 9780801438615
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher