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History and Its Objects - by Peter N Miller (Hardcover)

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  • Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and archeologists worldwide.
  • About the Author: Peter N. Miller is Dean and Professor at Bard Graduate Center.
  • 312 Pages
  • History, Historiography

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In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by highlighting the role of antiquarianism in grasping the significance of material culture.



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Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as anthropologists and archeologists worldwide. -- Nathan Schlanger, École nationale des chartes, Paris

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 in 100 Objects indicate the growing popularity of this way of understanding the past. In History and Its Objects, Peter N. Miller uncovers the forgotten origins of our fascination with exploring the past through its artifacts by highlighting the role of antiquarianism--a pursuit ignored and derided by modem academic history--in grasping the significance of material culture.

From the efforts of Renaissance antiquarians, who reconstructed life in the ancient world from coins, inscriptions, seals, and other detritus, to amateur historians in the nineteenth century working within burgeoning national traditions, Miller connects collecting--whether by individuals or institutions--to the professionalization of the historical profession, one which came to regard its progenitors with skepticism and disdain. The struggle to articulate the value of objects as historical evidence, then, lies at the heart both of academic history-writing and of the popular engagement with things.

Ultimately, this book demonstrates that our current preoccupation with objects is far from novel and reflects a human need to reexperience the past as a physical presence.



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The book's unconventional structure beautifully highlights Miller's nuanced way of accounting for connections and disconnections in the story he is telling. It is an inspiring model of longue durée history that subtly negotiates between continuity and rupture.... A great achievement that will be of interest to scholars of interdisciplinary material culture studies, art history and archaeology, historiography, intellectual history, and eighteenth--and nineteenth-century Germany, as well as to artists and museum practitioners.

-- "European History Quarterly"

The history of the study of things is an enormous subject, but there is no one better suited to tackle it than Peter N. Miller. Author of two extraordinary books and numerous essays on early modern antiquarianism, Miller is ideally positioned to write what he modestly describes as "an outline history of how people have thought about studying objects as evidence."

-- "Journal of Modern History"



About the Author



Peter N. Miller is Dean and Professor at Bard Graduate Center. He is the author most recently of Peiresc's Mediterranean World, editor of Cultural Histories of the Material World, and coeditor of Antiquarianism and Intellectual Life in Europe and China, 1500-1800.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .88 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.36 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 312
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: Historiography
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Peter N Miller
Language: English
Street Date: March 1, 2017
TCIN: 1006481879
UPC: 9780801453700
Item Number (DPCI): 247-46-7065
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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