Peter burke what place do images hold among other kinds of historical evidence. The uses of images as historical evidence by burke, peter y. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. This profusely illustrated book surveys the opportunities and the challenges of using images to understand other times. If history has experienced a pictorial or visual turn in the past two decades, how widespread is this shift and how deep does it run. Pdf following on from peter burke, eyewitnessing 2001, this article considers again the potential for collaboration between historians and. Eyewitnessing evaluates the place and potency of images among other kinds of historical evidence. Culicover brian bond popular series by peter burke. This article assesses the current state of the field by investigating peter burkes book eye witnessing. Eyewitnessing the uses of images as historical evidence peter burke.
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