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Peter burke is professor emeritus of cultural history at the university of cambridge. Yet, burke is surprisingly cautious about writing a manual that. Eyewitnessing the uses of images as historical evidence by. If history has experienced a pictorial or visual turn in the past two decades, how widespread is this shift and how deep does it run. According to burke, the study of history relies too heavily on texts and ignores the visual at great cost.
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