Material culture books

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Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation, Re-creation

Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation,...

Author: Dr Alexandra Lester-Makin (Author) ,  Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker
ISBN: 9781837650132
Format: Hardback
$194.06

An interdisciplinary study of the uses, meanings, and social impact of Viking Age textiles.  Read More >>

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy

Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese...

Author: K. J. P. Lowe
ISBN: 9780691246840
Format: Hardback
$79.99

"A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from...  Read More >>

Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Britain

Writing on the Wall: Graffiti, Rebellion and the Making...

Author: Madeleine Pelling
ISBN: 9781800811997
Format: Hardback
$55.00

Hear the voices of the eighteenth century: an eye-opening new history of Britain's most tumultuous period, told...  Read More >>

Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China: Redefining Female Identity through Modern Design and Lifestyle

Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China:...

Author: Sandy Ng
ISBN: 9789462988910
Format: Hardback
$319.44

Portrayals of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China explores the role played by woman, and their visual representations,...  Read More >>

Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements...

Author: Chloe Wigston Smith
ISBN: 9780300270785
Format: Hardback
$103.95

The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism  Read More >>

The Sion Treasure Reconsidered: The Biographies and Multivalence of Sacred Silver Objects in Sixth-Century Byzantium

The Sion Treasure Reconsidered: The Biographies and...

Author: Ahmet Arı
ISBN: 9781032385358
Format: Hardback
$252.00

This book builds on the studies of the Sion Treasure and examined questions regarding silver mining, manufacture,...  Read More >>

Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Author: Gareth Harney
ISBN: 9781847927514
Format: Paperback
$36.99

The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary...  Read More >>

Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Moneta: A History of Ancient Rome in Twelve Coins

Author: Gareth Harney
ISBN: 9781847927507
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The extraordinary story of Rome told through one of the world's once most ubiquitous objects- coins. The extraordinary...  Read More >>

Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier

Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer,...

Author: Patrick Grant
ISBN: 9780008664008
Format: Hardback
$50.00

‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN 'Patrick’s...  Read More >>

Abstraction & Economy: Myths of Growth

Abstraction & Economy: Myths of Growth

Author: Eva Maria Stadler ,  Jenni Tischer
ISBN: 9783111366340
Format: Paperback
$105.00

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The Complete Guide to Combat City

The Complete Guide to Combat City

Author: Julia Schulz-Dornburg
ISBN: 9783986120986
Format: Paperback
$82.50

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Bead Talk: Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from the Flatlands

Bead Talk: Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from...

Author: Carmen L. Robertson ,  Judy Anderson
ISBN: 9781772840650
Format: Paperback
$72.32

Gathers conversations, interviews, essays, and colour reproductions of artwork from expert and emerging artists,...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age

Author: Professor Julie Lund (University of Oslo, Norway) ,  Dr Sarah Semple (Durham University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350463356
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance

Author: James Symonds (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781350463363
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry...

Author: Dr Carolyn White
ISBN: 9781350463622
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity

Author: Professor Robin Osborne
ISBN: 9781350463349
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines...  Read More >>

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

Author: Professor Laurie Wilkie ,  Professor John Chenoweth
ISBN: 9781350463639
Format: Paperback
$52.99

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global...  Read More >>

Dolia: The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine

Dolia: The Containers That Made Rome an Empire of Wine...

Author: Caroline Cheung
ISBN: 9780691243009
Format: Hardback
$99.99

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Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600: Gifts as Objects

Gift-Giving and Materiality in Europe, 1300-1600: Gifts...

Author: Dr Lars Kjaer (New College of the Humanities, UK) ,  Dr Gustavs Strenga (Tallinn University, Estonia)
ISBN: 9781350186101
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Gift-giving played an important role in political, social and religious life in medieval and early modern Europe....  Read More >>

Perspectivism in Archaeology: Insights into Indigenous Theories of Reality

Perspectivism in Archaeology: Insights into Indigenous...

Author: Andrés Laguens (University of Córdoba, Argentina)
ISBN: 9781009393911
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Perspectivism is an archaeological approach that distinguishes recurrent characteristics found in Amerindian mythology....  Read More >>

Bead Talk: Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from the Flatlands

Bead Talk: Indigenous Knowledge and Aesthetics from...

Author: Carmen L. Robertson ,  Judy Anderson
ISBN: 9781772840681
Format: Hardback
$184.80

Beading fosters traditional methods of teaching and learning and enables intergenerational transmissions of pattern...  Read More >>

Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age: 1850-1875

Human Documents of the Victorian Golden Age: 1850-1875...

Author: E. Royston Pike
ISBN: 9781032615233
Format: Hardback
$221.00

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