Time's Witness: History in the Age of Romanticism

by Rosemary Hill

Book Overview

How our understanding of the past was transformed between the French Revolution and the Great Exhibition by a band of long-forgotten pioneers, the antiquaries

Between the fall of the Bastille in 1789 and the opening of the Great Exhibition in 1851, history changed. The grand narratives of the Enlightenment, concerned with kings and statesmen, gave way to a new interest in the lives of ordinary people. Oral history, costume history,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141047097
• ISBN13: 9780141047096
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.