{"product_id":"history-and-material-culture-9781138928671","title":"History and Material Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSources 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 \u003ci\u003eHistory and Material Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, contributors consider a range of objects  from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a twenty-first-century shopping trolley  which can help historians develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContaining two new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley in the social world, this book examines a variety of material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study the distant and the recent past. In a revised introduction, Karen Harvey discusses some of the principal issues raised when historians use material culture, particularly in the context of ''the material turn'', and suggests some initial steps for those unfamiliar with these kinds\u0026amp;nb\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of contributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Historians, material culture and materiality\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKaren Harvey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 – Things that shape history: material culture and historical narratives\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiorgio Riello\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 – Ornament as evidence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Morrall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 – Back yards and beyond: landscapes and history\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarina Moskowitz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 – Draping the body and dressing the home: the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeverly Lemire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 – Using buildings to understand social history: Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Laurence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 – Pushed around: material culture, dispossession, and the American shopping cart\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCatherine Gudis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 – Repurposed objects and performance: ritual acts of healing in East Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJonathan Walz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 – Object biographies: from production to consumption\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKarin Dannehl\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 – Regional identity and material culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Berry\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 – Objects and agency: material culture and modernity in China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Dikötter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 – Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, micro-histories and the problem of scale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSara Pennell\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 – The case of the missing footstool: reading the absent object\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGlenn Adamson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084563411287,"sku":"9781138928671","price":36.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/history-and-material-culture-9781138928671","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}