History and material culture
By: edited by Karen Harvey.
Contributors: Harvey, Karen, 1971-
Series: The Routledge guides to using historical sources
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780415468497; 9780415459327
Subjects: Material culture -- Research -- Methodology; History -- Research
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Things that shape history : material culture and historical narratives / Giorgio Riello; title: Ornament as evidence / Andrew Morrall; title: Back yards and beyond : landscapes and history / Marina Moskowitz; title: Draping the body and dressing the home : the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800 / Beverly Lemire; title: Using buildings to understand social history : Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century / Anne Laurence; title: Object biographies : from production to consumption / Karin Dannehl; title: Regional identity and material culture / Helen Berry; title: Objects and agency : material culture and modernity in China / Frank Dikötter; title: Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, microhistories and the problem of scale / Sara Pennell; title: The case of the missing footstool : reading the absent object / Glenn Adamson.