History as wonder : : beginning with historiography / / Marnie Hughes-Warrington.

History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder. From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabi...

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Place / Publishing House:Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2019.
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (235 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Sense and non-sense in ancient Greek histories
  • Wonderful and curious histories in pre-modern Europe
  • The wonders of history in the pre-modern islamic world
  • Wonder against ritual: strange Chinese histories
  • Historical cabinets of curiosity in early modern Europe
  • Spirited histories in modern Europe
  • Seeing the wonder trick in histories of the moving image
  • History's others, history's ethics: gendering wonder
  • Renewing wonder in postcolonial histories
  • The banality of history.