Apologies to Thucydides: understanding history as culture and vice versa
Sahlins, Marshall.
Apologies to Thucydides: understanding history as culture and vice versa - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. - xii, 334 p. ill. maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the conceit that Western historiography is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history
9780226103822
Thucydides.
Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.--Historiography.
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
996.11 / SAH
Apologies to Thucydides: understanding history as culture and vice versa - Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. - xii, 334 p. ill. maps ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the conceit that Western historiography is the foundation of everyone else's. Here, Marshall Sahlins takes on Thucydides and the conceptions of history he wrought with a new book that shows what a difference an anthropological concept of culture can make to the writing of history
9780226103822
Thucydides.
Greece--History--Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.--Historiography.
Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War.
996.11 / SAH
