History and its objects : antiquarianism and material culture since 1500 /

"Cultural history is increasingly informed by the history of material culture--the ways in which individuals or entire societies create and relate to objects both mundane and extraordinary--rather than on textual evidence alone. Books such as The Hare with Amber Eyes and A History of the World...

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Main Author: Miller, Peter N., 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Why historiography matters
  • History and things in the twentieth century
  • Karl Lamprecht and the "material turn" of 1885
  • Things as historical evidence in the late Renaissance and early Enlightenment
  • Material evidence in the history curriculum in eighteenth-century Göttingen
  • Archaeology as a way of talking about things 1750-1850
  • Material culture in the amateur historical associations of early nineteenth-century Germany
  • Gustav Klemm, cultural history and Culturwissenschaft
  • The germanisches Nationalmuseum: antiquitates and cultural history in the museum.