Material culture books

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The Material Culture of the Jacobites

The Material Culture of the Jacobites

Author: Neil Guthrie
ISBN: 9781316626238
Format: Paperback
$80.19

An original and thought-provoking study of the material objects produced, acquired and treasured by those who worked...  Read More >>

Material Women, 1750–1950: Consuming Desires and Collecting Practices

Material Women, 1750–1950: Consuming Desires and Collecting...

Author: Maureen Daly Goggin ,  Beth Fowkes Tobin
ISBN: 9781138253070
Format: Paperback
$105.00

With global perspective and comparative framework, this collection contributes to the scholarly examination of consumption...  Read More >>

Killer Technologies

Killer Technologies

Author: Richard Falk
ISBN: 9780745628646
Format: Paperback
$31.02

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Killer Technologies

Killer Technologies

Author: Richard Falk
ISBN: 9780745628639
Format: Hardback
$103.50

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Talking Stones: The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland

Talking Stones: The Politics of Memorialization in Post-Conflict...

Author: Elisabetta Viggiani ,  Hastings Donnan
ISBN: 9781785333415
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Using the memorialization of the Troubles in contemporary Northern Ireland as a case study, this book investigates...  Read More >>

Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival

Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human...

Author: Phil Rose (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781783206889
Format: Hardback
$165.95

In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term ""technopoly"" to refer to ""the surrender of culture to technology.""...  Read More >>

Ritual, Performance and the Senses

Ritual, Performance and the Senses

Author: Michael Bull ,  Jon P. Mitchell
ISBN: 9781350001510
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers

Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers...

Author: Jon Kay
ISBN: 9780253022165
Format: Paperback
$56.95

These individuals forge new identities for themselves that do not erase their earlier lives but build on them and...  Read More >>

Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers

Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers...

Author: Jon Kay
ISBN: 9780253022066
Format: Hardback
$113.95

These individuals forge new identities for themselves that do not erase their earlier lives but build on them and...  Read More >>

Advertising Exposure, Memory and Choice

Advertising Exposure, Memory and Choice

Author: Andrew A. Mitchell
ISBN: 9781138966147
Format: Paperback
$101.00

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique Literature

Gifts of Clothing in Late Antique Literature

Author: Nikki Rollason
ISBN: 9781472435736
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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

A Philosophy of Material Culture: Action, Function, and Mind

A Philosophy of Material Culture: Action, Function,...

Author: Beth Preston (University of Georgia, USA)
ISBN: 9781138210226
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study...  Read More >>

Scotland to the World: Treasures from the National Museum of Scotland

Scotland to the World: Treasures from the National Museum...

Author: David Souden
ISBN: 9781910682050
Format: Hardback
$77.63

Showcases over a hundred treasures from the collections of the National Museum of Scotland.  Read More >>

The Visual Culture of Violence After the French Revolution

The Visual Culture of Violence After the French Revolution...

Author: Lela Graybill
ISBN: 9781472450197
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Shedding critical light on previously neglected aspects of art and visual culture of the post-Revolutionary period,...  Read More >>

Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History: A Nautical History of the World

Fifty Ships that Changed the Course of History: A Nautical...

Author: Ian Graham
ISBN: 9780750970440
Format: Hardback
$46.55

'Ships that Changed History' is more than just a delight for lovers of the sea – it’s a virtual history of the world...  Read More >>

Concrete and Culture: A Material History

Concrete and Culture: A Material History

Author: Adrian Forty
ISBN: 9781780236360
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Almost three tons of concrete are produced each year for every person on the planet; only water is consumed more...  Read More >>

Paper: Paging Through History

Paper: Paging Through History

Author: Mark Kurlansky
ISBN: 9780393239614
Format: Hardback
$45.95

From the The New York Times best-selling author of Cod and Salt, a definitive history of paper and the astonishing...  Read More >>

Narratives of Technology

Narratives of Technology

Author: J. M. van der Laan
ISBN: 9781137440303
Format: Hardback
$192.95

This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology-now the dominant...  Read More >>

Women and Museums, 1850–1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge

Women and Museums, 1850–1914: Modernity and the Gendering...

Author: Kate Hill ,  Pamela Sharpe
ISBN: 9780719081156
Format: Hardback
$183.99

This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers,...  Read More >>

Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture

Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture

Author: Christie Brown ,  Julian Stair
ISBN: 9781472470379
Format: Hardback
$315.00

Examines how ceramic artists have, over the last decade, begun to animate museum collections in new ways, and reflects...  Read More >>

Trash Talks: Revelations in the Rubbish

Trash Talks: Revelations in the Rubbish

Author: Elizabeth V. Spelman (Professor of Philosophy and Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Humanities, Professor of Philosophy and Barbara Richmond 1940 Professor in the Humanities, Smith College)
ISBN: 9780190239350
Format: Hardback
$82.95

Our relation to rejectamenta includes much more than shedding and tossing. We maintain intimate bonds with the dumped...  Read More >>

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