Moving objects: French history and the study of material culture
Volume
37
Pagination
345 - 356
Publisher
DOI
10.1093/fh/crad051
Journal
French History
Issue
ISSN
0269-1191
Metadata
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What does it mean to see the history of France through objects? In 1837, Thomas Carlyle chose three things to structure his analysis of the French Revolution: the Bastille, the Constitution and the Guillotine.1 Yet Carlyle used these objects as a kind of shorthand, as symbols for the greater whole, rather than subjects of sustained analysis and reflection. This special issue puts the analysis of objects at the heart of French history, to ask what material histories of France might mean.
Authors
Broch, L; Pooley, WG; Smith, AWMCollections
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