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Cohen, who was born in San Francisco, received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts
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Sande Cohen
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From San Francisco State University and a Doctor of Philosophy in history from University of California, Los Los Angeles His most recent work is titled History Out of Joint: Essays on the Use and Abuse of History, Johns Hopkins Press, 2006.
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That book was divided in two sections: the first five chapters offered a critique of the ways in which history is mythed-up and abused in everyday practices, e.g. a chapter focused on the mainland Chinese attempts to twist history into the notion that Taiwan was always part of "china," while the five chapters of the second part of the book discuss the implications of French Theory for historiography. A special issue of the journal Rethinking History (v 12, 2008) published essays on Cohen"s writings. His first book, Historical Culture (1986, University of California Press), was the first semiotic critique of historical representation.
His next book, Academia and the Luster of Capital (Minnesota, 1993) was a series of essays on contemporary intellectual life, with one chapter on the politics of hiring and firing of professors in American institutions.
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