History and Material Culture A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

Name: History and Material Culture A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
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ISBN: 9780415459327

ISBN-10: 041545932X

ISBN-13: 9780415459327

Edition: 2009

Authors: Karen Harvey, Karen D. Harvey

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Book details

List price: $45.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of illustrations


List of contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction: practical matters




Things that shape history: material culture and historical narratives




Ornament as evidence




Back yards and beyond: landscapes and history




Draping the body and dressing the home: the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800




Using buildings to understand social history: Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century




Object biographies: from production to consumption




Regional identity and material culture




Objects and agency: material culture and modernity in China




Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, micro-histories and the problem of scale




The case of the missing footstool: reading the absent object



Index