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Clues, Myths and the Historical Method

by Carlo Ginzburg · 1986

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In the diversity of methods and objects of analysis it offers, Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method offers a fresh perspective on this Italian historian who has become such an essential point of reference in many domains of cultural study today. — Dana Polan, Camera Obscura.

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medium · 256 pages

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