Carolyn Steedman

Dust

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. -- .

Produktdetails

• Encounters: Cultural Histories
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 250g
• ISBN-13: 9780719060151
• ISBN-10: 071906015X
• Artikelnr.: 42302779

Autorenporträt

Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface 1. In the Archon's house 2. 'Something she called
a fever' 3. The magistrates 4. The space of memory: In an archive 5.
Middlemarch: Without benefit of archive 6. What a rag rug means 7. On how
the end is different from an ending 8. The story of Dust