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Author:   Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138928664

ISBN 10:   1138928666
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   25 September 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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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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).

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