The Birth of the Past by Anthony Grafton, Zachary S. Schiffman

The Birth of the Past

Anthony Grafton, Zachary S. Schiffman

336 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Weste...

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