Historical Imagination examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imaginati

"A thorough and breathtaking review of modern historiography, anthropology, and literary criticism as they relate to the American frontier."—Robert V. Hine, a

The origins, nature, function and effects of imagination have engrossed writers, theologians, philosophers and practitioners of the arts across the ages; its in

Leo Treitler is a central figure in American musicology, both for his writings on medieval and Renaissance music and for his influential work on historical anal

From the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, the imagination came to be recognized in South Indian culture as the defining feature of human beings. Shul