Material culture books

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Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture

Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, Emotion, and...

Author: Joanne Begiato
ISBN: 9781526128577
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in...  Read More >>

Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s–80s

Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet...

Author: Yulia Karpova
ISBN: 9781526139870
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book offers a new perspective on the history of Soviet design. It argues that the 'comradely objects' of Russian...  Read More >>

Das Norische Donaukastell Arelape/Pochlarn

Das Norische Donaukastell Arelape/Pochlarn

Author: Sebastian Schmid
ISBN: 9783700183686
Format: Paperback
$1185.36

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The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900

The Comforts of Home in Western Europe, 1700-1900

Author: Professor Jon Stobart (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350092952
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Comfort, both physical and affective, is a key aspect in our conceptualization of the home as a place of emotional...  Read More >>

Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural...

Author: Gerald Egan
ISBN: 9783030268978
Format: Hardback
$258.72

Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress...  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: 9781479869503
Format: Paperback
$69.99

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

Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life

Machines for Living: Modernism and Domestic Life

Author: Victoria Rosner (Dean of Academic Affairs, School of General Studies, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)
ISBN: 9780198845195
Format: Hardback
$81.95

Machines for Living shows how the modernization of the home led to profound changes in domestic life and relied...  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 ,  Gabriel Peters-Lazaro
ISBN: 9781479873029
Format: Hardback
$69.99

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

Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and Society

Styling South Asian Youth Cultures: Fashion, Media and...

Author: Lipi Begum (Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK) ,  Rohit K. Dasgupta (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350154070
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Inside the street-style, sexuality & sartorial codes of today's South Asian youth  Read More >>

Poetry and Crisis: Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings

Poetry and Crisis: Cultural Politics and Citizenship...

Author: Jill Robbins
ISBN: 9781487504731
Format: Hardback
$89.99

Poetry and Crisis argues that the 2004 terrorist attacks in Madrid marked a critical turning point in Spanish society,...  Read More >>

Precolonial African Material Culture: Combatting Stereotypes of Technological Backwardness

Precolonial African Material Culture: Combatting Stereotypes...

Author: V. Tarikhu Farrar
ISBN: 9781793606426
Format: Hardback
$277.00

Precolonial African Material Culture presents a comprehensive challenge to the long-held myth of the inherent backwardness...  Read More >>

Civilizing Cities

Civilizing Cities

Author: David Williams
ISBN: 9781911593799
Format: Paperback
$49.14

Cities provide the physical theatre for our economic activities and social life, where civilisation can develop...  Read More >>

Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World

Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital...

Author: Johan Redström (Umeå Institute of Design, Sweden) ,  Heather Wiltse (Umeå University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781350141032
Format: Paperback
$56.99

Explores the changing role and nature of 'things' in the digital age.  Read More >>

Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern...

Author: Dr Maria Gerolemou (adjunct lecturer, University of Exeter, UK) ,  Prof Lilia Diamantopoulou (University of Vienna, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350101289
Format: Hardback
$200.00

This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on...  Read More >>

Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art

Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary...

Author: Andy Campbell
ISBN: 9781526142825
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary Art

Bound Together: Leather, Sex, Archives, and Contemporary...

Author: Andy Campbell
ISBN: 9781526142801
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book examines US gay and lesbian leather archives alongside contemporary artistic practices that reframe and...  Read More >>

The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design

The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design

Author: Tristram Hunt
ISBN: 9781851779727
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Published to explore in more depth some of the stories featured in the BBC six-part series Secrets of the Museum....  Read More >>

Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and Memory in Contemporary Kenya

Managing Heritage, Making Peace: History, Identity and...

Author: Annie E. Coombes (Birkbeck University of London) ,  Lotte Hughes (The Open University)
ISBN: 9780755601141
Format: Paperback
$66.99

Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence...  Read More >>

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis

The Oxford Handbook of Archaeological Ceramic Analysis...

Author: Alice M. W. Hunt (Assistant Research Scientist, Assistant Research Scientist, Center for Applied Isotope Studies, University of Georgia)
ISBN: 9780198854449
Format: Paperback
$94.95

This volume draws together topics and methodologies essential for the sociocultural, mineralogical, and geochemical...  Read More >>

The Life of Things: MOMENTA | Biennale de l'image

The Life of Things: MOMENTA | Biennale de l'image

Author: Kerber, MOMENTA | Biennale de l'image ,  Amanda de la Garza
ISBN: 9783735606075
Format: Hardback
$93.15

MOMENTA Biennale de l'image 2019 explores the universes built between individuals and their material environment,...  Read More >>

Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique Literature

Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique Literature

Author: Nikki Rollason
ISBN: 9780367879617
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Both clothing and gifts in the ancient world have been the subject of much scholarly discussion because they were...  Read More >>

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