Material culture books

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Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World: Material Crossovers

Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient...

Author: Katharina Rebay-Salisbury (University of Leicester, UK) ,  Ann Brysbaert (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9780367868413
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This edited volume investigates knowledge networks based on materials and associated technologies in Prehistoric...  Read More >>

Concluding the Neolithic: The Near East in the Second Half of the Seventh Millennium BCE

Concluding the Neolithic: The Near East in the Second...

Author: Arkadiusz Marciniak
ISBN: 9781937040833
Format: Paperback
$171.60

The second half of the seventh millennium BC saw the previously affluent and dynamic Neolithic way of life end....  Read More >>

How Green is Your Smartphone?

How Green is Your Smartphone?

Author: Richard Maxwell ,  Toby Miller (University of California at Riverside)
ISBN: 9781509534715
Format: Hardback
$72.95

Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology....  Read More >>

Collecting and Museology

Collecting and Museology

Author: Florian Dobmeier ,  Andrea M. Gáldy
ISBN: 9781527542280
Format: Hardback
$263.87

To celebrate the first ten years of the international forum Collecting and Display, as well as the launch of a dedicated...  Read More >>

Brick: A Social History

Brick: A Social History

Author: Carolyne Haynes
ISBN: 9780750991933
Format: Paperback
$57.99

Revealing the fascinating social history of bricks in Britain!  Read More >>

The Sword: Form and Thought

The Sword: Form and Thought

Author: Lisa Deutscher ,  Mirjam Kaiser (Author)
ISBN: 9781783274277
Format: Hardback
$168.19

A multidisciplinary overview of current research into the enduringly fascinating martial artefact which is the sword....  Read More >>

Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress: A Tribute to Robin Netherton

Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress: A Tribute...

Author: Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker ,  Maren Clegg Hyer (Contributor)
ISBN: 9781783274741
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Essays on costume, fabric and clothing in the Middle Ages and beyond.  Read More >>

Toys and Playthings: In Development and Remediation

Toys and Playthings: In Development and Remediation...

Author: John Newson ,  Elizabeth Newson
ISBN: 9781138506237
Format: Paperback
$69.99

First published in 1979 this title is richly observant, it follows the child’s development in play from using the...  Read More >>

Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of Childhood, 1700-Present

Childhood by Design: Toys and the Material Culture of...

Author: Dr. Megan Brandow-Faller (Associate Professor of History, City University of New York Kingsborough, USA)
ISBN: 9781501358890
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Informed by the analytical practices of the interdisciplinary ‘material turn’ and social historical studies of childhood,...  Read More >>

Materielle Kultur und Konsum in der Frühen Neuzeit

Materielle Kultur und Konsum in der Frühen Neuzeit

Author: Prof. Dr. Andrea Caracausi ,  Dr. Elizabeth Harding
ISBN: 9783412507305
Format: Hardback
$121.59

Ob unscheinbarer Alltagsgegenstand oder gehüteter Kunstschatz – die in diesem Buch vorgestellten Objekte haben Geschichte...  Read More >>

Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and the Literatures of Extraction in Contemporary Latin America

Things with a History: Transcultural Materialism and...

Author: Héctor Hoyos (Assistant Professor, Stanford University)
ISBN: 9780231193047
Format: Hardback
$149.95

In Things with a History, Héctor Hoyos argues that the roles of objects in recent Latin American fiction offer a...  Read More >>

A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558

A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558...

Author: Vincent Gillespie ,  Susan Powell
ISBN: 9781843845362
Format: Paperback
$77.60

First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with...  Read More >>

Birds, Bugs and Butterflies: Lady Betty Cobbe's 'Peacock' China: A Biography of an Irish Service of Worcester Porcelain

Birds, Bugs and Butterflies: Lady Betty Cobbe's 'Peacock'...

Author: Alec Cobbe (Author)
ISBN: 9781783274727
Format: Hardback
$116.44

A major contribution to our knowledge of the Worcester porcelain factory in its early years, based on a single large...  Read More >>

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Contexts

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global...

Author: Heike Jenss (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) ,  Dr. Viola Hofmann (Institute of Arts and Material Culture, TU Dortmund University, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350057814
Format: Hardback
$220.00

Fashion is intimately tied to the material world. With a focus on diverse cultural practices, this book offers new...  Read More >>

Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple...

Author: Reinier de Graaf
ISBN: 9780674241466
Format: Paperback
$43.95

"A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year ""Sharp, revealing, funny.""...  Read More >>

The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects

The Stuff of Soldiers: A History of the Red Army in...

Author: Brandon M. Schechter
ISBN: 9781501739798
Format: Hardback
$75.01

The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon...  Read More >>

There's Something About Darcy

There's Something About Darcy

Author: Gabrielle Malcolm
ISBN: 9781911445562
Format: Paperback
$25.85

For some, Colin Firth emerging from a lake in that clinging wet shirt is one of the most iconic moments in television....  Read More >>

Fashion and Psychoanalysis: Styling the Self

Fashion and Psychoanalysis: Styling the Self

Author: Alison Bancroft
ISBN: 9781350145061
Format: Paperback
$49.99

In this innovative new book, Alison Bancroft re-examines significant moments in twentieth century fashion history...  Read More >>

Germanische Siedlungsspuren Des 3. Bis 5. Jahrhunderts N. Chr. Zwischen Rhein, Neckar Und Enz

Germanische Siedlungsspuren Des 3. Bis 5. Jahrhunderts...

Author: Sven Jager
ISBN: 9783954904440
Format: Hardback
$475.20

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Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists

Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists

Author: Dr Agnès Rocamora ,  Anneke Smelik
ISBN: 9781350125209
Format: Paperback
$44.99

First 'how to' guide to the ideas of key thinkers for fashion students.  Read More >>

Mid-Century Living: The Butterfly House Collection

Mid-Century Living: The Butterfly House Collection

Author: Christine Fernyhough ,  Damian Skinner
ISBN: 9780143772361
Format: Hardback
$52.99

An extraordinary collection of mid century and modern Kiwi objects and the stories behind them from the best-selling...  Read More >>

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materalism

Again, Dangerous Visions: Essays in Cultural Materalism...

Author: Andrew Milner ,  J. R. Burgmann
ISBN: 9781642590395
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This important volume collects twenty-six essential essays that chart the development of Andrew Milner's distinctively...  Read More >>

A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects

A History of the Tudors in 100 Objects

Author: John Matusiak
ISBN: 9780750991254
Format: Paperback
$39.99

An intimate portrait of Tudor England captured, revealed and explored in 100 defining objects  Read More >>

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