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Title: DUST
By: Carolyn Steedman, Bertrand Taithe, Roger Cooter
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 071906015X
ISBN 13: 9780719060151
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Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 31 January, 2002
Series: Encounters: Cultural Histories
Pages: 208
Description: 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. -- .
Synopsis: In this book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a sometimes irreverent investigation into how modern historiography has developed. Writing about the practice and writing of history, she considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the 19th century, with which modern history writing attempts to grapple. Drawing on over five years worth of her own published and unpublished writing, the author has produced a sustained argument about the way in which history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Returns: Returnable
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