Sarah Maza: 3 books

－－我們讀的是誰的歷史？我們該如何思考歷史？－－ 究竟誰是歷史的創造者？歷史又是如何被生產？ 歷史學家該如何評估史料？一般讀者又該如何閱讀史籍？ 「描述」和「詮釋」間的鴻溝何在？歷史，到底是事實還是虛構？ 「歷史學家不能給你答案，但隨著時間的推移看問題，可以教你如何提出正確的問題。」 －－莎拉‧瑪札（Sarah...

What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it. Designed...

On an August evening in 1933, in a quiet, working-class neighborhood in Paris, eighteen-year-old Violette Nozière gave her mother and father glasses of barbiturate-laced "medication," which she told them had been prescribed by the family doctor; one of her parents died, the other barely...