In this witty, engaging, and challenging book, Carolyn Steedman has
produced an original -- and sometimes irreverent -- investigation
into how modern historiography has developed. Dust: The Archive and
Cultural History considers our stubborn set of beliefs about an
objective material world -- inherited from the nineteenth century
-- with which modern history writing and its lack of such a belief,
attempts to grapple. Drawing on her own published and unpublished
writing, Carolyn Steedman has produced a sustained argument about
the way in which history writing belongs to the currents of thought
shaping the modern world.
Steedman begins by asserting that in recent years much attention
has been paid to the archive by those working in the humanities and
social sciences; she calls this practice "archivization." By
definition, the archive is the repository of "that which will not
go away, " and the book goes on to suggest that, just like dust,
the "matter of history" can never go away or be erased.
This unique work will be welcomed by all historians who want to
think about what it is they do.
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