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Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world, and suggests that, like dust, the 'matter of history' can never go away or be erased.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Preface
1. In the Archon's house
2. 'Something she called a fever'
3. The magistrates
4. The space of memory: In an archive
5. Middlemarch: Without benefit of archive
6. What a rag rug means
7. On how the end is different from an ending
8. The story of Dust

Dust Encounters Encounters Cultural Histories

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      Publisher Manchester University Press
      Published 1/31/2002 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780719060151
      978-0719060151
      ISBN-10 071906015X
      Also in:
      History Historiography Social and cultural history

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Dust is a witty and highly original investigation into the development of modern history writing. This book considers how history writing belongs to the currents of thought shaping the modern world, and suggests that, like dust, the 'matter of history' can never go away or be erased.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements
      Preface
      1. In the Archon's house
      2. 'Something she called a fever'
      3. The magistrates
      4. The space of memory: In an archive
      5. Middlemarch: Without benefit of archive
      6. What a rag rug means
      7. On how the end is different from an ending
      8. The story of Dust

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