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Dust

Paperback • 2001 • English

Dust

By Carolyn Steedman

2 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

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About the book

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 Drawing on over five years worth of her own published and unpublished writin...Show more

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ISBN

9780719060151

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published year

2001

Language

English

Original title

Dust

Format

Paperback

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