Material culture books

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Things Bogans Like: Tribal tatts to reality tv: how to recognise the twenty-first century bogan

Things Bogans Like: Tribal tatts to reality tv: how...

Author: E. Chas McSween ,  Enron Hubbard
ISBN: 9780733630415
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Based on the popular website; thingsboganslike.wordpress.com, THINGS BOGANS LIKE is a revolutionary manifesto that...  Read More >>

Outsiders and Strangers: An Archaeology of Liminality in West Africa

Outsiders and Strangers: An Archaeology of Liminality...

Author: Anne Haour (Reader, Sainsubry Research Unit, University of East Anglia)
ISBN: 9780199697748
Format: Hardback
$239.95

Asking what archaeology can bring to the debate on liminal peoples in West African societies, and drawing together...  Read More >>

The Materials of Exchange between Britain and North East America, 1750-1900

The Materials of Exchange between Britain and North...

Author: Daniel Maudlin ,  Robin Peel
ISBN: 9781409462439
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the complex cultural exchanges that took place between Britain and America...  Read More >>

The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘Series’

The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘Series’

Author: David Watt
ISBN: 9780859898690
Format: Hardback
$258.75

The first book-length study of Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘Series’ (1419-21), a medieval compilation of texts that exemplify...  Read More >>

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: 9780415678803
Format: Hardback
$441.00

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

Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers

Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts,...

Author: Ralph Hanna, III (Keble College (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9780859898713
Format: Hardback
$207.00

This book is the first to address medieval book history for graduate students of medieval English literature. Ralph...  Read More >>

The Food Crisis: Implications for Labor

The Food Crisis: Implications for Labor

Author: Debdulal Saha ,  Christoph Scherrer
ISBN: 9783866183933
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism

Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the...

Author: Karen Ferguson
ISBN: 9780812245264
Format: Hardback
$171.47

Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of the counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the elite liberal...  Read More >>

Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border

Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico...

Author: Elizabeth Emma Ferry
ISBN: 9780253009289
Format: Hardback
$122.95

Traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections...  Read More >>

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great...

Author: Francesca Bray
ISBN: 9780415639569
Format: Hardback
$284.00

What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology...  Read More >>

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered

Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great...

Author: Francesca Bray
ISBN: 9780415639590
Format: Paperback
$101.00

What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology...  Read More >>

Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the...

Author: Daniela Bleichmar ,  Peter C. Mancall
ISBN: 9780812222203
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South...  Read More >>

A History of Cheltenham in 100 Objects

A History of Cheltenham in 100 Objects

Author: Steven Blake
ISBN: 9780752461199
Format: Paperback
$33.61

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A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism

A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory...

Author: Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, McMaster University)
ISBN: 9780199950980
Format: Hardback
$339.00

Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese things throughout the long eighteenth century, this book...  Read More >>

Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith

Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith

Author: Reina Lewis (London College of Fashion, UK)
ISBN: 9781780763835
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Modest dressing, both secular and religious, is a growing trend across the world. This book examines the growing...  Read More >>

Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

Author: Alan Bilton
ISBN: 9781137020246
Format: Hardback
$84.99

This absorbing study of early 20th Century American Culture interprets the anarchic absurdity of slapstick movies...  Read More >>

Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture

Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture...

Author: Rachel Hurdley
ISBN: 9780230230286
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Assembling Mass Observation Archive material with historiographies of family, house and nation from ancient-Greece...  Read More >>

What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology

What Makes Life Worth Living: On Pharmacology

Author: Bernard Stiegler (Bernard Steigler: Centre Georges-Pompidou) ,  Daniel Ross
ISBN: 9780745662701
Format: Hardback
$103.95

In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valery wrote of a crisis of spirit , brought about by...  Read More >>

Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics

Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics

Author: Jennifer Gabrys
ISBN: 9780472035373
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Provides a study of the material life of information and its devices and of electronic waste in its physical and...  Read More >>

The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World

The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon...

Author: Maren Clegg Hyer (Department of English, Valdosta State University (United States)) ,  Gale R. Owen-Crocker (English, American and Creative Writing, University of Manchester (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9780859898805
Format: Paperback
$158.37

A collection which introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to the realities of everyday Anglo-Saxon life...  Read More >>

Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage

Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage

Author: Michael R. Veach
ISBN: 9780813141657
Format: Hardback
$73.79

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Touching America's History: From the Pequot War through WWII

Touching America's History: From the Pequot War through...

Author: Meredith Mason Brown
ISBN: 9780253008336
Format: Hardback
$47.95

Brings readers in contact with the past through tangible objects and the history these objects evoke  Read More >>

Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture: A Century of Romantic Futurisms

Death and Desire in Car Crash Culture: A Century of...

Author: Ricarda Vidal
ISBN: 9781906165420
Format: Hardback
$78.95

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