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

Miller, Peter N.,

History and its objects : antiquarianism and material culture since 1500 / Peter N. Miller. - Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.



9781501708244

2016049373


Antiquities--Study and teaching.
Material culture--History.


Electronic Books.

GN406 / .H578 2017