History from things : essays on material culture /

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 to reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to "read" artifacts...

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Other Authors: Kingery, W. D, Lubar, Steven D
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1993
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