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History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture Since 1500

History and Its Objects: Antiquarianism and Material Culture Since 1500

Miller, Peter N.

Hardcover

Art HistoryGeneral World HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 0801453704
ISBN13: 9780801453700
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Mar 1 2017
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and archeologists worldwide. -- Nathan Schlanger, École nationale des chartes, Paris

Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture--the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary--rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by highlighting the role of antiquarianism--a pursuit ignored and derided by modem academic history--in grasping the significance of material culture.

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