The Mammoth and the Mouse: Microhistory and Morphology by Florike Egmond, Peter Mason

The Mammoth and the Mouse: Microhistory and Morphology

Florike Egmond, Peter Mason

264 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

history informative medium-paced

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In the Mammoth Room of Charles Willson Peale's Philadelphia museum, the reconstructed skeleton of a mammoth stands beside that of a mouse. This juxtaposition, write Florike Egmond and Peter Mason, is symbolic of the two approaches to history which...

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