With new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley, this edition examines material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how sources can be used to study the past. A new introduction discusses the issues raised when historians use material culture, particularly in the context of 'the material turn'.
With new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley, this edition examines material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how sources can be used to study the past. A new introduction discusses the issues raised when historians use material culture, particularly in the context of 'the material turn'.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
List of illustrations 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
List of illustrations 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
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