History and Its Images

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History and Its Images
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 574
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ISBN-10 : 0300059493
ISBN-13 : 9780300059496
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Book Synopsis History and Its Images by : Francis Haskell

Book excerpt: Over the last four centuries, historians have turned to images in their attempts to understand and visualize the past. In this book, an art historian surveys the various ways that they have adopted for making use of this material and examines the objects that became available to them.


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