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History and Material Culture : a student's guide to approaching alternative sources edited by Karen Harvey.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.Description: 210 p. ill., mapsISBN:
  • 9780415459327
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 930.107 HAR
Contents:
Things that shape history : material culture and historical narratives / Giorgio Riello -- Ornament as evidence / Andrew Morrall -- Back yards and beyond : landscapes and history / Marina Moskowitz -- Draping the body and dressing the home : the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800 / Beverly Lemire -- Using buildings to understand social history : Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century / Anne Laurence -- Object biographies : from production to consumption / Karin Dannehl -- Regional identity and material culture / Helen Berry -- Objects and agency : material culture and modernity in China / Frank Dikötter -- Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, microhistories and the problem of scale / Sara Pennell -- The case of the missing footstool : reading the absent object / Glenn Adamson.
Summary: Harvey opens up the discussion on sources to those beyond the 'traditional' textual ones, and into the material realm. Through 12 chapters different historians look at a variety of material sources from around the world and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Things that shape history : material culture and historical narratives / Giorgio Riello -- Ornament as evidence / Andrew Morrall -- Back yards and beyond : landscapes and history / Marina Moskowitz -- Draping the body and dressing the home : the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800 / Beverly Lemire -- Using buildings to understand social history : Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century / Anne Laurence -- Object biographies : from production to consumption / Karin Dannehl -- Regional identity and material culture / Helen Berry -- Objects and agency : material culture and modernity in China / Frank Dikötter -- Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, microhistories and the problem of scale / Sara Pennell -- The case of the missing footstool : reading the absent object / Glenn Adamson.

Harvey opens up the discussion on sources to those beyond the 'traditional' textual ones, and into the material realm. Through 12 chapters different historians look at a variety of material sources from around the world and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study history.

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