Material culture books

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Boxes and Books in Early Modern England: Materiality, Metaphor, Containment

Boxes and Books in Early Modern England: Materiality,...

Author: Lucy Razzall
ISBN: 9781108831338
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Razzall offers close readings of literary texts alongside artefacts from chests to book-bindings and reliquaries,...  Read More >>

Textile Design Theory in the Making

Textile Design Theory in the Making

Author: Dr Elaine Igoe
ISBN: 9781350061569
Format: Hardback
$180.00

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A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions

A History of Seeing in Eleven Inventions

Author: Susan Denham Wade ,  Tristan Gooley
ISBN: 9780750997164
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Why do we see the world the way we do? An unusual history of sight across 500 million years.  Read More >>

Shiny Things: Reflective Surfaces and Their Mixed Meanings

Shiny Things: Reflective Surfaces and Their Mixed Meanings...

Author: Leonard Diepeveen ,  Timothy van Laar
ISBN: 9781789383782
Format: Paperback
$48.95

Discusses meanings of shininess in art and in culture generally. Shininess is physically and metaphorically present...  Read More >>

Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern...

Author: Dr Maria Gerolemou (adjunct lecturer, University of Exeter, UK) ,  Prof Lilia Diamantopoulou (University of Vienna, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350193895
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This volume examines mirrors and mirroring through a series of multidisciplinary essays, especially focusing on...  Read More >>

Sails, Skippers and Sextants: A History of Sailing in 50 Inventors and Innovations

Sails, Skippers and Sextants: A History of Sailing in...

Author: George Drower
ISBN: 9780750995733
Format: Hardback
$32.99

Fifty stories showcasing the impact made by inspiring individuals and inventions on the development of the sailing...  Read More >>

Lehr- Und Schausammlungen Im Wandel: Archive, Displays, Objekte

Lehr- Und Schausammlungen Im Wandel: Archive, Displays,...

Author: Bettina Von Habsburg-Lothringen ,  Matthias Kammel
ISBN: 9783496016618
Format: Paperback
$100.32

Die Prasentation offentlicher und universitarer Sammlungen wird aktuell oft von Veranderungen in den Institutionen...  Read More >>

The Wheels of Society

The Wheels of Society

Author: Tony Wilson
ISBN: 9781861519948
Format: Paperback
$25.88

A cogent, vivid proposal for us to re-think ourselves to steer civilisation back to safety. As a species we cling...  Read More >>

The Rehabilitation of Historic Schools in Portugal: Changes in Cultural Values

The Rehabilitation of Historic Schools in Portugal:...

Author: Sofia Aleixo
ISBN: 9781527567634
Format: Hardback
$168.16

This book examines the material and immaterial values that are used and perceived in heritage educational environments...  Read More >>

Precious Coral and the Legacy of the Coral Road

Precious Coral and the Legacy of the Coral Road

Author: Iwasaki Nozomu
ISBN: 9781527567832
Format: Paperback
$160.40

Drawing on diverse perspectives, this collection of 12 essays and around 150 colour illustrations explores the history...  Read More >>

Luxury and American Consumer Culture: A Socio-Semiotic Analysis

Luxury and American Consumer Culture: A Socio-Semiotic...

Author: Arthur Asa Berger
ISBN: 9781527570184
Format: Hardback
$263.87

Using concepts from semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, sociology, and Marxism, this book analyzes the role of luxury...  Read More >>

A History of Gardening in 50 Objects

A History of Gardening in 50 Objects

Author: George Drower
ISBN: 9780750996853
Format: Paperback
$37.99

A treasure trove of gardening information in 50 often little known objects that have transformed the way we think...  Read More >>

Beyond Recycling

Beyond Recycling

Author: Paul Micklethwaite
ISBN: 9780367903879
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary...  Read More >>

Beyond Recycling

Beyond Recycling

Author: Paul Micklethwaite
ISBN: 9780367903886
Format: Hardback
$162.00

Beyond Recycling critically explores unasked questions around recycling and its prominent position in contemporary...  Read More >>

Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503-1533

Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain: Catherine...

Author: Michelle L. Beer
ISBN: 9780861933556
Format: Paperback
$64.66

A study of the performance of queenship by two Tudor monarchs, showing the strategies they used to assert their...  Read More >>

The Hidden History of the Smock Frock

The Hidden History of the Smock Frock

Author: Alison Toplis (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781350212640
Format: Paperback
$52.99

"""Focussing on one item of utilitarian 19th-century workwear, Alison Toplis uncovers new social histories and reveals...  Read More >>

Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration

Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration

Author: Maria Photiou (University of Derby, UK) ,  Professor Marsha Meskimmon (Loughborough University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350203068
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Examines how the concepts of 'home', 'migration' and 'belonging' can be used to contextualise contemporary art practices...  Read More >>

The Hidden History of the Smock Frock

The Hidden History of the Smock Frock

Author: Alison Toplis (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
ISBN: 9781350126114
Format: Hardback
$170.00

"""Focussing on one item of utilitarian 19th-century workwear, Alison Toplis uncovers new social histories and reveals...  Read More >>

The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture

The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist...

Author: Tad Skotnicki
ISBN: 9781503627734
Format: Paperback
$52.95

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The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist Culture

The Sympathetic Consumer: Moral Critique in Capitalist...

Author: Tad Skotnicki
ISBN: 9781503614635
Format: Hardback
$180.95

What the struggle to make consumption ethical reveals about our world.  Read More >>

The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes from Chola India, 855–1280

The Thief Who Stole My Heart: The Material Life of Sacred...

Author: Vidya Dehejia
ISBN: 9780691202594
Format: Hardback
$120.00

The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the...  Read More >>

Plastic: An Autobiography

Plastic: An Autobiography

Author: Allison Cobb
ISBN: 9781643620381
Format: Paperback
$33.61

How the autobiography of plastic became the autobiography of all of us  Read More >>

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Contexts

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global...

Author: Heike Jenss (Parsons School of Design, The New School, USA) ,  Dr. Viola Hofmann (Institute of Arts and Material Culture, TU Dortmund University, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350228078
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Fashion is intimately tied to the material world. With a focus on diverse cultural practices, this book offers new...  Read More >>

Encountering Early America

Encountering Early America

Author: Rachel Winchcombe
ISBN: 9781526145772
Format: Hardback
$183.99

Encountering early America traces the many cultural influences that shaped English understandings of the Americas...  Read More >>

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