Material culture books

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The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000-2020: Bones, Rumours & Spirits

The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe 2000-2020: Bones,...

Author: Professor Joost Fontein
ISBN: 9781847012678
Format: Hardback
$232.88

Innovative and challenging study that provides fresh insights on the anthropology of death and postcolonial politics....  Read More >>

Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, Emotion, and Material Culture

Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, Emotion, and...

Author: Joanne Begiato
ISBN: 9781526163639
Format: Paperback
$69.99

This book focuses on men's bodies, emotions and material culture to offer a new understanding of masculinities in...  Read More >>

Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture of North China, 1000-2000

Gods of Mount Tai: Familiarity and the Material Culture...

Author: Susan NAQUIN
ISBN: 9789004504257
Format: Hardback
$805.20

At the intersection of art and religious history, Susan Naquin’s richly illustrated history presents a fresh method...  Read More >>

At Home in Renaissance Bruges: Connecting Objects, People and Domestic Spaces in a Sixteenth-Century City

At Home in Renaissance Bruges: Connecting Objects, People...

Author: Julie De Groot
ISBN: 9789462703179
Format: Paperback
$116.44

Domestic materiality in a remarkable European city  Read More >>

Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics of Looking

Revisiting the Gaze: The Fashioned Body and the Politics...

Author: Morna Laing (Parsons Paris, France) ,  Jacki Willson (University of Leeds, UK)
ISBN: 9781350243033
Format: Paperback
$61.99

In 1975 Laura Mulvey published her seminal essay on the male gaze, ushering in a new era in understanding the politics...  Read More >>

The Royal Workshops of the Alhambra: Industrial Activity in Early Modern Granada

The Royal Workshops of the Alhambra: Industrial Activity...

Author: Alberto García Porras ,  Dr Chloë N. Duckworth
ISBN: 9781783276813
Format: Hardback
$116.44

The Alhambra is one of the most famous archaeological sites worldwide, yet knowledge of it remains very partial,...  Read More >>

Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the Future

Back to the Shops: The High Street in History and the...

Author: Rachel Bowlby (Professor of Comparative Literature, University College London)
ISBN: 9780198815914
Format: Hardback
$47.95

Over time, shops have occupied radically different places in cultural arguments and everyday lives. Back to the...  Read More >>

Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications

Crafting Anatomies: Archives, Dialogues, Fabrications...

Author: Professor Katherine Townsend (Nottingham Trent University, UK) ,  Rhian Solomon (Practising Artist, UK)
ISBN: 9781350242432
Format: Paperback
$61.99

The human body lies at the centre of our relationship to fashion and textiles. Crafting Anatomies explores how the...  Read More >>

Mardi Gras Beads

Mardi Gras Beads

Author: Doug MacCash
ISBN: 9780807177099
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Beads are one of the great New Orleans symbols, as much a signifier of the city as a pot of scarlet crawfish or...  Read More >>

Sticker

Sticker

Author: Henry Hoke (Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, Freelance Writer, USA)
ISBN: 9781501367229
Format: Paperback
$19.99

"""A unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history."" - Publisher’s Weekly ""A...  Read More >>

Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia

Dissidents among Dissidents: Ideology, Politics and...

Author: Ilya Budraitskis ,  Tony Wood
ISBN: 9781839764189
Format: Paperback
$39.99

How have the fall of the USSR and the long dominance of Putin reshaped Russian politics and culture?  Read More >>

A Simpler Life: a guide to greater serenity, ease, and clarity

A Simpler Life: a guide to greater serenity, ease, and...

Author: The School of Life ,  Alain de Botton
ISBN: 9781912891689
Format: Hardback
$32.99

Exploring ideas around minimalism, simplicity and how to live comfortably with less.  Read More >>

Danger in the Path of Chic: Violence in Fashion between the Wars

Danger in the Path of Chic: Violence in Fashion between...

Author: Lucy Moyse Ferreira (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350126282
Format: Hardback
$180.00

Exploring violent tropes in British, French and American fashion c. 1919-39, this book asks why they appeared and...  Read More >>

Winston Churchill: A Life in the News

Winston Churchill: A Life in the News

Author: Richard Toye (Professor of Modern History, University of Exeter)
ISBN: 9780192896230
Format: Paperback
$37.95

A books which traces Churchill's life in the news from cradle to grave, showing how tensions between tradition and...  Read More >>

Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love

Author: Haruki Murakami ,  Philip Gabriel
ISBN: 9781787303195
Format: Hardback
$35.00

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal...  Read More >>

Transottoman Matters: Objects Moving through Time, Space, and Meaning

Transottoman Matters: Objects Moving through Time, Space,...

Author: Arkadiusz Christoph Blaszczyk ,  Robert Born
ISBN: 9783847111689
Format: Hardback
$124.17

This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobilityas a shorthand for...  Read More >>

The Religious Heritage Complex: Legacy, Conservation, and Christianity

The Religious Heritage Complex: Legacy, Conservation,...

Author: Cyril Isnart ,  Nathalie Cerezales
ISBN: 9781350266940
Format: Paperback
$61.99

The Religious Heritage Complex examines heritage-making of Christian-related legacies led by secular and clerical...  Read More >>

British Children's Literature and Material Culture: Commodities and Consumption 1850-1914

British Children's Literature and Material Culture:...

Author: Dr Jane Suzanne Carroll (Ussher Assistant Professor in Children’s Literature, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350201781
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The ‘golden age’ of children’s literature in the late 19th and early 20th century coincided with a boom in the production...  Read More >>

National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World War II

National Treasures: Saving The Nation's Art in World...

Author: Caroline Shenton
ISBN: 9781529387438
Format: Hardback
$45.00

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Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern England

Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and...

Author: Sarah Bendall (Australian Catholic University, Australia)
ISBN: 9781350164109
Format: Paperback
$59.99

"""Utilizing an array of both well known and rarely seen sources, Shaping Femininity explores how 16th and 17th-century...  Read More >>

The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Fabergé, 1600 - Present

The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to...

Author: Professor Matthew P. Romaniello (Weber State University, USA) ,  Professor Alison K. Smith (University of Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350186026
Format: Hardback
$180.00

The Life Cycle of Russian Things re-orients commodity studies using interdisciplinary and comparative methods to...  Read More >>

Communities of Print: Books and their Readers in Early Modern Europe

Communities of Print: Books and their Readers in Early...

Author: Rosamund Oates ,  Jessica G. Purdy
ISBN: 9789004448919
Format: Hardback
$380.16

This book provides a new perspective on book history, with essays from leading scholars showing how communities...  Read More >>

The Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit: Volume 2: The Stratigraphy, Ceramics, and Other Finds

The Temple Complex at Horvat Omrit: Volume 2: The Stratigraphy,...

Author: J. Andrew Overman ,  Daniel N. Schowalter
ISBN: 9789004461895
Format: Hardback
$564.96

This report from the Omrit temple excavations presents artifacts (e.g., ceramics, frescoes, coins, etc.) recovered...  Read More >>

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