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The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain
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The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain

Simon Goldhill

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Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the buried life of things; 1. A writer's things: Edward Bulwer Lytton and the archaeological gaze; 2. When things matter: religion and the physical world; 3. Imperial landscapes, the biblical gaze, and techniques of the photo album: capturing the real in Jerusalem and the holy land; 4. Building history: a mandate coda; 5. Restoration; Coda: a final dig; Bibliography.

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The buried life of things : how objects made history in nineteenth-century Britain by Simon Goldhill. ISBN 9781107087484. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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