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, Ecole nationale des chartes, Paris Peter N. Miller offers an original approach to the history of things, bringing what he calls a 'submerged history' of things to the surface. ... Read more
Peter Burke, Emmanuel College, Cambridge In this remarkable book, Peter N. Miller unearths an unsuspected genealogy for material culture studies and cultural history. We owe Miller a debt of gratitude for laying bare this deep history and revealing that in our present celebration of material culture, we are joining a long conversation.
Pamela H. Smith, Columbia University In its clarity, History and Its Objects is a pure pleasure to read. Peter N. Miller tells his story with great erudition and in a personal tone, elegantly composing it from numerous historical examples.
Matthias Bruhn, Humboldt University Berlin A scholarly triumph, Peter N. Miller's History and Its Objects offers a sweeping and often deeply personal intellectual voyage along the long arc of the 'material turn' in the Western philosophy of objects. Miller combines deep erudition and an accessible voice in a work that speaks to the very heart of how and what objects mean.
Bernard L. Herman, George B. Tindall Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies and Chair, Department of American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill History and Its Objects is a wonderful book. Peter N. Miller's great achievement is to offer a coherent narrative, step by step, generation by generation. It is the finding of a hidden path through a jungle of literature that has fallen into oblivion.
Martin Mulsow, University of Erfurt The history of the study of things is an enormous subject, but there is no one better suited to tackle it than Peter N. Miller. Author of two extraordinary books and numerous essays on early modern antiquarianism, Miller is ideally positioned to write what he modestly describes as an outline history of how people have thought about studying objects as evidence.
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