TY - BOOK AU - Harvey,Karen Ed. AU - Harvey,Karen TI - History and Material Culture: a student's guide to approaching alternative sources T2 - The Routledge guides to using historical sources SN - 9780415459327 U1 - 930.107 HAR PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York PB - Routledge KW - Material culture KW - History N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -