Dust: The Archive and Cultural History

by Carolyn Steedman

Book Overview

In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced an originaland sometimes irreverentinvestigation into how modern historiography has developed. Dust: The Archive and Cultural History considers our stubborn set of beliefs about an objective material worldinherited from the nineteenth centurywith which modern history writing and its lack of such a belief, attempts to grapple. Drawing on her own published and unpublished...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813530474
• ISBN13: 9780813530475
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.8"