Weaving together literary and scholarly insights, History and Its Objects will prove indispensable reading for historians and cultural historians, as well as an
This book takes a dramatically original approach to the history of humanity, using objects which previous civilisations have left behind them, often accidentall
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The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secreta