"History in its traditional form sought to 'commemorate' the monuments of the past, to transform them into documents, and to make those traces speak, which themselves are often non-verbal or say silently something other than they seem to say. Today, history is what transforms documents into monuments and what reveals-where one reads the traces that people left behind, where one tries to guess in the dark what they were-a collection of elements to be isolated, divided into groups, valorized, arranged in relationships, and put together as a whole."
Publisher: De Agostini.
Series: Masterpieces of Great Thinkers.
Year of publication: 2002.
Format: 200 x 125 mm, 246 pages.
ISBN: 83-7316-034-5.
Book in very good condition.
Elegantsewn edition, bound in imitation leather, with gilding.