Material culture books

1280 books were found.

Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts

Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval...

Author: Fiona Griffiths ,  Kathryn Starkey
ISBN: 9783110709025
Format: Paperback
$42.81

This volume draws on scholarship at the intersection of two vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval...  Read More >>

Critical Design in Japan: Material Culture, Luxury, and the Avant-Garde

Critical Design in Japan: Material Culture, Luxury,...

Author: Ory Bartal (Head of the History and Theory Department)
ISBN: 9781526139979
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan. It challenge the characterisation of Japanese...  Read More >>

The Auto Biography of the Mini

The Auto Biography of the Mini

Author: Jon Stroud
ISBN: 9781782815495
Format: Paperback
$65.87

A car that was conceived as the answer to a crisis but which became one of the best known, best loved and biggest...  Read More >>

Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

Vinyl: The Analogue Record in the Digital Age

Author: Dominik Bartmanski ,  Ian Woodward
ISBN: 9780857856616
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Recent years have seen not just a revival, but a rebirth of the analogue record. More than merely a nostalgic craze,...  Read More >>

Decoding a Royal Marine Commando: The Militarized Body as Artefact

Decoding a Royal Marine Commando: The Militarized Body...

Author: Mark Burchell
ISBN: 9780367585334
Format: Paperback
$83.99

With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals,...  Read More >>

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe

Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe

Author: Suzanne L. Marchand
ISBN: 9780691182339
Format: Hardback
$44.99

A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the present  Read More >>

Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities

Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority...

Author: Anna-Mari Almila (London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350175358
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Veiling in Fashion enters the worlds of women who wear the hijab, both as an aspect of their religious observance...  Read More >>

Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour, and Experience

Roman Artefacts and Society: Design, Behaviour, and...

Author: Ellen Swift (Reader, Reader, University of Kent)
ISBN: 9780198866886
Format: Paperback
$87.95

The text examines Roman artefacts using design theory to shed new light on our understanding of the relationship...  Read More >>

The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890

The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary...

Author: Tom Stammers (University of Durham)
ISBN: 9781108478847
Format: Hardback
$323.44

Surveying the collecting culture from the French Revolution to the Belle Époque, this study explores how material...  Read More >>

A Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in Glasgow Libraries and Museums  [2 volume set]

A Catalogue of Fifteenth-Century Printed Books in Glasgow...

Author: Jack Baldwin
ISBN: 9781843844679
Format: Hardback
$452.81

2022 ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography - First Prize Winner This catalogue of the substantial collection of...  Read More >>

Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts, 1589–1619

Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of...

Author: Jemma Field
ISBN: 9781526142498
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book examines Anna of Denmark's engagement with visual and material goods, including architecture, garden design,...  Read More >>

Ergrabene Kontexte: Interpretationen Archaologischer Fundzusammenhange Auf Burgen

Ergrabene Kontexte: Interpretationen Archaologischer...

Author: Christina Schmid
ISBN: 9783205209799
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Diese Studie zeigt das Potential einer Analyse archaologischer Fundzusammenhange: Raumliche und soziale Kontextualisierungen...  Read More >>

The Religious Heritage Complex: Legacy, Conservation, and Christianity

The Religious Heritage Complex: Legacy, Conservation,...

Author: Cyril Isnart ,  Nathalie Cerezales
ISBN: 9781350072510
Format: Hardback
$200.00

The Religious Heritage Complex examines heritage-making of Christian-related legacies led by secular and clerical...  Read More >>

Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture

Tweenhood: Femininity and Celebrity in Tween Popular...

Author: Melanie Kennedy (University of Leicester, UK)
ISBN: 9781350157439
Format: Paperback
$66.99

A powerful female, pre-adolescent, consumer demographic has emerged in tandem with girls becoming more visible in...  Read More >>

The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan: Gift Giving and Diplomacy

The Dutch East India Company in Early Modern Japan:...

Author: Associate Professor Michael Laver (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)
ISBN: 9781350126039
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Michael Laver examines how the giving of exotic gifts in early modern Japan facilitated Dutch trade by ascribing...  Read More >>

Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture at the University of Texas at Austin

Collecting Black Studies: The Art of Material Culture...

Author: Lise Ragbir ,  Cherise Smith
ISBN: 9781477320051
Format: Hardback
$94.95

Today Black Studies at the University of Texas boasts approximately 900 objects from sub-Saharan Africa, over 200...  Read More >>

Legendary Port of the Maritime Silk Routes: Zayton (Quanzhou)

Legendary Port of the Maritime Silk Routes: Zayton (Quanzhou)...

Author: Qiang Wang
ISBN: 9781433170379
Format: Hardback
$344.92

Legendary Port of the Maritime Silk Routes: Zayton (Quanzhou) is a book of Asian premodern maritime history from...  Read More >>

Life In A Box: Traveller. Antiques Dealer. Mother. Model. Iconoclast.

Life In A Box: Traveller. Antiques Dealer. Mother. Model....

Author: Sarah Jane Adams
ISBN: 9781760524951
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The wonderfully compelling and unorthodox memoir of 63-year old international model and iconoclast, @mywrinklesaremystripes'...  Read More >>

Ocean

Ocean

Author: Dr Steve Mentz (St John’s University, USA)
ISBN: 9781501348631
Format: Paperback
$19.99

""Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz's Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from...  Read More >>

Material Spirituality in Modernist Women’s Writing

Material Spirituality in Modernist Women’s Writing

Author: Dr Elizabeth Anderson (University of Glasgow, UK)
ISBN: 9781350063440
Format: Hardback
$200.00

For Virginia Woolf, H.D., Mary Butts and Gwendolyn Brooks, things mobilise creativity, traverse domestic, public...  Read More >>

Lauchheim I.: Beitrage Zur Computertomographie ALS Dokumentationsmethode, Zur Textilarchaologie Und Zur Bestattungspraxis in Der Fruhen Merowingerzeit

Lauchheim I.: Beitrage Zur Computertomographie ALS Dokumentationsmethode,...

Author: Dirk Krausse ,  Sebastian Brather
ISBN: 9783954903597
Format: Hardback
$179.52

In Lauchheim (Ostalbkreis) wurde zwischen 1986 und 1996 der mit rund 1300 Grabern des spaten 5. bis spaten 7. Jahrhundert...  Read More >>

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change

Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies...

Author: Henry Jenkins ,  Sangita Shresthova
ISBN: 9781479847204
Format: Hardback
$215.00

""""Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination"" examines case studies of creative social change""--  Read More >>

Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds

Brilliance and Fire: A Biography of Diamonds

Author: Rachelle Bergstein ,  Roksolyana Svyato
ISBN: 9789669763310
Format: Hardback
$25.88

From the author of Women from the Ankle Down comes a lively cultural biography of diamonds, which explores our society's...  Read More >>

Enlightened Consumption

Enlightened Consumption

Author: James Doug Clopton
ISBN: 9781524957407
Format: Paperback
$191.40

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