History and material culture : a student's guide to approaching alternative sources / edited by Karen Harvey.

Date:
2009
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Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Physical description

xiv, 210 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Things that shape history : material culture and historical narratives / Giorgio Riello -- Ornament as evidence / Andrew Morrall -- Back yards and beyond : landscapes and history / Marina Moskowitz -- Draping the body and dressing the home : the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800 / Beverly Lemire -- Using buildings to understand social history : Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century / Anne Laurence -- Object biographies : from production to consumption / Karin Dannehl -- Regional identity and material culture / Helen Berry -- Objects and agency : material culture and modernity in China / Frank Dikötter -- Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, microhistories and the problem of scale / Sara Pennell -- The case of the missing footstool : reading the absent object / Glenn Adamson.

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ISBN

  • 9780415468497
  • 0415468493
  • 9780415459327
  • 041545932X