Dust

Informationen zum Autor Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick Klappentext Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world, and suggests that, like dust, the 'matter of history' can never go away or be erased. Zusammenfassung Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world! and suggests that! like dust! the 'matter of history' can never go away or be erased. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsPreface1. In the Archon's house2. 'Something she called a fever'3. The magistrates4. The space of memory: In an archive5. Middlemarch: Without benefit of archive6. What a rag rug means7. On how the end is different from an ending8. The story of Dust

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Steedman
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2002
• EAN: 9780719060151
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-6015-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 203 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Encounters: Cultural Histories; Encounters: Cultural Histories
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous