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En 1910, la opinión pública española fue conmovida por una serie de acontecimientos que tenían como protagonista a un profesor prácticamente desconocido en los círculos intelectuales de la época. Enviado a America por su universidad con el proposito de trabar acuerdos regulares de intercambio con las casas de altos estudios argentinas, uruguayas, chilenas, mexicanas y cubanas, su exito rebasaria la esfera academica para impactar en la sociedad civil y el mundo politico. En efecto, Altamira no solo dictaria catedra y obtendria doctorados honoris causa, sino que pronunciaria decenas de conferencias en sociedades obreras y de educacion popular, seria recibido por ministros y jefes de Estado y tendria presencia cotidiana en la prensa.

Paru pour la première fois en 1950, cet ouvrage constitue une synthèse sur les domaines d''expression (culture, arts, littérature) et sur le cadre géographique (Italie, Angleterre, France, Allemagne)

This unprecedented book, by one of Britain's leading intellectual historians, describes the intellectual impact that the study and consideration of the past has had in the western world over the past 2500 years, treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the cultural history of Europe and America. It magnificently brings to life the work of historians from the Greeks to the present, including Livy, Tacitus, Bede, Froissart, Clarendon, Gibbon, Macaulay, Michelet, Prescott and Parkman, explaining their distinctive qualities and allowing the modern reader to appreciate and enjoy them.But it also examines subjects as diverse as the new perspectives brought about by the rise of Rome, the interests of medieval chroniclers, the introduction into historical narratives of what the eighteenth century called 'sentiment', the effects of Romanticism and the emergence towards the end of the nineteenth century of an historical profession. It sets out to be not the history of an academic discipline, but a history of choice: the choice of pasts, and the ways they have been demarcated, investigated, presented and even sometimes learned from as they have changed according to political, religious, cultural and (often most importantly) patriotic circumstances.

Le tabou, c''est tout ce que l''on n''ose pas dire en certaines circonstances. L''Histoire recèle un grand nombre de ces silences-là qui ne sont ni des oublis ni des interdits. Repérer les tabous nou