num_pages: 288
description: In this brillant meditation on conceptions of history, Le Goff traces the evolution of the historian's craft. Examining real and imagined oppositions between past and present, ancient and modern, oral and written history, History and Memory reveals the strands of continuity that have characterized historiography from ancient Mesopotamia to modern Europe.
language: English
title: History and Memory
titlecomplete: History and Memory
genres: Theory, History, Nonfiction, Philosophy
ratings_count: 164
publisher: Columbia University Press