L'invenzione della tradizione
ISBN:
9788806162450 (8806162454)
Publish date: 2002
Publisher: Einaudi
Pages no: 295
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Anthropology,
Cultural Studies,
Social Science,
Theory
Not the worst of it's kind but there were parts that just dragged. This is a selection of essays about the invention of tradition, largely in the 19th Century. Starts with an introduction by Eric Hobsbawm which is pretty dry. The enthusiasm that Hugh Trevor-Roper has for his topic of Highland Trad...
A mixed bunch of studies which seemed to get less and less penetrable as you go on.
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