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History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources book cover

2nd Edition

History and Material Culture A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

Edited By Karen Harvey Copyright 2018
278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge

278 Pages
by Routledge
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Sources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text. In this new edition of History and Material Culture , contributors consider a range of objects – from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a twenty-first-century shopping trolley – which can help historians develop... Read more

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List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Historians, material culture and materiality

Karen Harvey

1 – Things that shape history: material culture and historical narratives

Giorgio Riello

2 – Ornament as evidence

Andrew Morrall

3 – Back yards and beyond: landscapes and history

Marina Moskowitz

4 – Draping the body and dressing the home: the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800

Beverly Lemire

5 – Using buildings to understand social history: Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century

Anne Laurence

6 – Pushed around: material culture, dispossession, and the American shopping cart

Catherine Gudis

7 – Repurposed objects and performance: ritual acts of healing in East Africa

Jonathan Walz

8 – Object biographies: from production to consumption

Karin Dannehl

9 – Regional identity and material culture

Helen Berry

10 – Objects and agency: material culture and modernity in China

Frank Dikötter

11 – Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, micro-histories and the problem of scale

Sara Pennell

12 – The case of the missing footstool: reading the absent object

Glenn Adamson

Index

　

Biography

Karen Harvey is a Professor of History at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture (2004), The Kiss in History (2005) and The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2012).

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