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| #387343 in Books | Smithsonian Books | 1995-09-17 | 1995-09-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.63 x6.03l,.90 | File type: PDF | 320 pages | ||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...
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