[PDF.17mg] History from Things: Essays on Material Culture

History from Things: Essays on Material Culture

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 | #1421481 in eBooks |  2013-06-04 |  2013-06-04 | File type: PDF

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Some engaging ideas but overall too particular and not enough continuity between essays|By Reid Wegner|It is exactly what it claims to be. For non-historians, it can get pretty dreary, and many of the essays are less about historical frameworks and methods of deducing history from things than they are about the specific historical details of the objects studied.

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   History from Things explores the many ways objects—defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery—can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to “read” artifacts, how to “listen to” landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously bel...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.History from Things: Essays on Material Culture   |  From Smithsonian Books.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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