History and Material Culture (eBook, PDF)

A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
Redaktion: Harvey, Karen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351678124
• Artikelnr.: 49270989

Autorenporträt

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