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Dust (Paperback)
Loot Price: R373
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Dust (Paperback)
Series: Encounters: Cultural Histories
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Loot Price R373
Discovery Miles 3 730
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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her own published and unpublished writing, the author has produced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. Steedman
begins by looking at the attention paid to the archive by those
working in the humanities and social sciences in recent years, what
has become known as the practice of 'archivisation'. 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. Historians who want to
think about what it is they do will find this work enlightening,
and this book is essential reading for all undergraduates and
postgraduates studying historiography, and history and theory. -- .
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