This paper argues that historical consciousness is a conceptual system comprising interactive
elements which allow evaluation of the temporal/historical universe and self placement in time/history.
It further contends that historical consciousness operates in lived existence and may be analyzed
through personal life records- diaries.
The elements of historical consciousness, identified by assessing previous works on the
phenomenon, comprise a model which is applied to seven British diaries written in the late eighteenth
century. Application allows description of a specific manifestation of historical consciousness. In the
tradition of mentalite we will see both how the diarists make sense of temporal/historical experience
and what kind of sense they make. / Arts, Faculty of / History, Department of / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UBC/oai:circle.library.ubc.ca:2429/30620 |
| Date | January 1991 |
| Creators | Greenberg, Devorah |
| Publisher | University of British Columbia |
| Source Sets | University of British Columbia |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, Thesis/Dissertation |
| Rights | For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use. |
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