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Carolyn Steedman - Dust - 9780719060151 - V9780719060151
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Dust

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Description for Dust Paperback. .
In this witty, engaging and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has produced a highly original and sometimes irreverent investigation into the development of modern history writing. Dust is about the practice and writing of history. Dust considers the immutable, stubborn set of beliefs about the material world, past and present, inherited from the nineteenth 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 Drawing on over five years worth of her own published and unpublished writing, the author has produced a sustained argument about the way in which history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Manchester University Press
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Series
Encounters: Cultural Histories
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719060151
SKU
V9780719060151
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3

About Carolyn Steedman
Carolyn Steedman is Professor of History at the University of Warwick -- .

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