Keeping Time: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Art of History

by Peter N. Carroll

Book Overview

At once memoir and meditation, Keeping Time records one professional historian's struggle to live in history even as he studies it, writes about it, and teaches it. Exploring the omnipresence of the past in American life today, Peter N. Carroll weaves into his autobiographical narrative a wealth of provocative observations on the practice of history, the connections between "small" lives and large forces, and the relationship of personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820337927
• ISBN13: 9780820337920
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"