Material culture books

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Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things

Material Religion in Modern Britain: The Spirit of Things...

Author: Timothy Willem Jones ,  Lucinda Matthews-Jones
ISBN: 9781137540553
Format: Hardback
$192.95

This volume contributes towards to developments in the study of religion that illuminate the plural nature of religious...  Read More >>

Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line

Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line

Author: Mia Bay ,  Ann Fabian
ISBN: 9780813571706
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have often catered to specific ethnic...  Read More >>

Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line

Race and Retail: Consumption across the Color Line

Author: Mia Bay ,  Ann Fabian
ISBN: 9780813571713
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have often catered to specific ethnic...  Read More >>

Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life

Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life...

Author: Lisa Siraganian (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University)
ISBN: 9780190255268
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Modernism's Other Work challenges our view of relationships between aesthetic autonomy and the world of daily life--a...  Read More >>

Images of Blood in American Cinema: The Tingler to The Wild Bunch

Images of Blood in American Cinema: The Tingler to The...

Author: Kjetil Rødje
ISBN: 9781472436726
Format: Hardback
$284.00

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Ancient Samnium: Settlement, Culture, and Identity between History and Archaeology

Ancient Samnium: Settlement, Culture, and Identity between...

Author: Rafael Scopacasa (Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Research Fellow, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780198713760
Format: Hardback
$324.00

Ancient Samnium focuses on the region of Samnium in Italy, combining written and archaeological evidence to form...  Read More >>

Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals: Studies on Architecture, Stained Glass and Sculpture in Honor of Anne Prache

Arts of the Medieval Cathedrals: Studies on Architecture,...

Author: Kathleen Nolan ,  Dany Sandron
ISBN: 9781472440556
Format: Hardback
$284.00

The touchstones of Gothic monumental art in France - the abbey church of Saint-Denis and the cathedrals of Chartres,...  Read More >>

Material Cultures in Canada

Material Cultures in Canada

Author: Thomas Allen ,  Jennifer Blair
ISBN: 9781771120142
Format: Paperback
$80.30

Presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political...  Read More >>

Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution: constructed space conceptualized

Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution: constructed...

Author: Lynn Churchill ,  Dianne Smith
ISBN: 9781472440631
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Bringing together contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at...  Read More >>

The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel

The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel

Author: Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg
ISBN: 9781472439987
Format: Hardback
$284.00

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg examines works by authors such as Dorothy...  Read More >>

Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age

Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and...

Author: B. Tischleder ,  S. Wasserman
ISBN: 9781137470898
Format: Hardback
$294.95

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Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion

Objects and Materials: A Routledge Companion

Author: Penny Harvey (University of Manchester, UK) ,  Eleanor Casella (University of Manchester, UK)
ISBN: 9781138899414
Format: Paperback
$116.00

There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to...  Read More >>

The Art, Literature and Material Culture of the Medieval World

The Art, Literature and Material Culture of the Medieval...

Author: Meg Boulton ,  Jane Hawkes
ISBN: 9781846825613
Format: Hardback
$129.38

The medieval period was long viewed as an unenlightened counterpoint to the 'Classical' and the 'Renaissance, '...  Read More >>

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding...

Author: Andy Pike
ISBN: 9781118556405
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating...  Read More >>

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding...

Author: Andy Pike
ISBN: 9781118556382
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating...  Read More >>

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary...

Author: Alexander Monro
ISBN: 9780141039428
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Presents a story of how a Chinese product has for two millennia allowed knowledge, ideas and religions to spread...  Read More >>

Swedish Design: An Ethnography

Swedish Design: An Ethnography

Author: Keith M. Murphy
ISBN: 9780801479663
Format: Paperback
$67.25

This book examines the special relationship between politics and design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural...  Read More >>

Swedish Design: An Ethnography

Swedish Design: An Ethnography

Author: Keith M. Murphy
ISBN: 9780801453298
Format: Hardback
$279.45

This book examines the special relationship between politics and design in Sweden, revealing in particular the cultural...  Read More >>

Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture

Egypt in Italy: Visions of Egypt in Roman Imperial Culture...

Author: Molly Swetnam-Burland (College of William and Mary, Virginia)
ISBN: 9781107040489
Format: Hardback
$258.72

This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following...  Read More >>

Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil Case

Adventures in Stationery: A Journey Through Your Pencil...

Author: James Ward
ISBN: 9781846686160
Format: Paperback
$27.99

From Bronze Age India to a Surrey Stationers via pencil wars and accidental inventions: a hilarious insight into...  Read More >>

Ways of Curating

Ways of Curating

Author: Hans Ulrich Obrist
ISBN: 9780241950968
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Moving from meetings with artists to the creation of the first public museums in the 18th century, recounting the...  Read More >>

Fashionable Art

Fashionable Art

Author: Adam Geczy ,  Jacqueline Millner
ISBN: 9780857851826
Format: Paperback
$61.99

Nominated for the 2016 Art in Literature: Mary Lynn Kotz Award, Library of Virginia Owing to digitization, globalization...  Read More >>

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