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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield, UK)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: 2nd edition Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138928664ISBN 10: 1138928666 Pages: 262 Publication Date: 25 September 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of illustrations List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Historians, material culture and materiality Karen Harvey 1 – Things that shape history: material culture and historical narratives Giorgio Riello 2 – Ornament as evidence Andrew Morrall 3 – Back yards and beyond: landscapes and history Marina Moskowitz 4 – Draping the body and dressing the home: the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800 Beverly Lemire 5 – Using buildings to understand social history: Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century Anne Laurence 6 – Pushed around: material culture, dispossession, and the American shopping cart Catherine Gudis 7 – Repurposed objects and performance: ritual acts of healing in East Africa Jonathan Walz 8 – Object biographies: from production to consumption Karin Dannehl 9 – Regional identity and material culture Helen Berry 10 – Objects and agency: material culture and modernity in China Frank Dikötter 11 – Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, micro-histories and the problem of scale Sara Pennell 12 – The case of the missing footstool: reading the absent object Glenn Adamson IndexReviewsAuthor InformationKaren Harvey is a Professor of History at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture (2004), The Kiss in History (2005) and The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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