Material culture books

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Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians

Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews,...

Author: Alicia J. Batten (University of Waterloo, Canada) ,  Professor Kelly Olson (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
ISBN: 9780567684653
Format: Hardback
$300.00

"""Explores methodological issues, materials, and a variety of contexts for the study of dress and religion within...  Read More >>

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise...

Author: Fiona Greenland
ISBN: 9780226757032
Format: Paperback
$62.95

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Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy

Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise...

Author: Fiona Greenland
ISBN: 9780226756981
Format: Hardback
$187.95

Through much of its history, Italy was Europe’s heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and...  Read More >>

Miniature and the English Imagination: Literature, Cognition, and Small-Scale Culture, 1650–1765

Miniature and the English Imagination: Literature, Cognition,...

Author: Melinda Alliker Rabb (Brown University, Rhode Island)
ISBN: 9781108444286
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Examining the phenomenon of miniaturization in material culture, literature and theories of cognition, this study...  Read More >>

Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Dutch Republic

Rarities of These Lands: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in...

Author: Claudia Swan
ISBN: 9780691207964
Format: Hardback
$110.00

A vivid account of the exoticism of the Dutch Republic at a critical moment in its cultural and political historyThe...  Read More >>

Design Culture: Objects and Approaches

Design Culture: Objects and Approaches

Author: Guy Julier ,  Mads Nygaard Folkmann
ISBN: 9781350196544
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Design culture foregrounds the relationships between the domains of design practice, design production and everyday...  Read More >>

Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century

Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in...

Author: Serena Dyer (De Montfort University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350126961
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Eighteenth-century women told their life stories through making. With its compelling stories of women’s material...  Read More >>

Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 1865–1935

Modern Things on Trial: Islam’s Global and Material...

Author: Leor Halevi
ISBN: 9780231188678
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Leor Halevi tells the story of the Islamic trials of technological and commercial innovations of the late nineteenth...  Read More >>

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America...

Author: Associate Professor Peter C. Fine (University of Wyoming, USA)
ISBN: 9781474299572
Format: Paperback
$46.99

Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on...  Read More >>

Writing Material Culture History

Writing Material Culture History

Author: Dr Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Prof. Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781350105225
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture....  Read More >>

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America

The Design of Race: How Visual Culture Shapes America...

Author: Associate Professor Peter C. Fine (University of Wyoming, USA)
ISBN: 9781474299565
Format: Hardback
$150.00

Peter Fine's innovative study traces the development of a mass visual culture in the United States, focusing on...  Read More >>

Writing Material Culture History

Writing Material Culture History

Author: Dr Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick, UK) ,  Prof. Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick, UK)
ISBN: 9781350105218
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Writing Material Culture History 2e examines the methodologies used in the historical study of material culture....  Read More >>

Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice in England 1650-1900

Concerning Beards: Facial Hair, Health and Practice...

Author: Alun Withey (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350127845
Format: Hardback
$200.00

"""Through an exploration of the history of male facial hair in England, Alun Withey underscores its complex meanings,...  Read More >>

Der Stoff der Stoffe: Textile Innenräume in der Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts

Der Stoff der Stoffe: Textile Innenräume in der Literatur...

Author: Kira Jurjens
ISBN: 9783412520847
Format: Paperback
$150.05

The literature of the 19th century is full of fabrics: curtains, upholstery and carpets with their colors, patterns...  Read More >>

Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology: Towards a Better Understanding of Cultural Encounters and Their Influence on Material Culture

Material Culture and Identities in Egyptology: Towards...

Author: Bettina Bader
ISBN: 9783700187981
Format: Hardback
$282.48

The book examines the connection between identity and material culture, which forms the backbone of archaeology....  Read More >>

Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating: Rethinking Art Practice and Objecthood through Scientific Collections

Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating:...

Author: Edward Juler ,  Alistair Robinson
ISBN: 9781789383119
Format: Paperback
$80.95

Examines how scientific objects in museums and other collections act as inspiration to contemporary art practice,...  Read More >>

Lopodunum VII: Ladenburg Und Der Lobdengau Zwischen 'Limesfall' Und Den Karolingern

Lopodunum VII: Ladenburg Und Der Lobdengau Zwischen...

Author: Roland Prien ,  Christian Witschel
ISBN: 9783954904815
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Die Stadt Ladenburg kann auf ein reiches historisches Erbe zuruckblicken: In der romischen Epoche war Lopodunum...  Read More >>

Archaologie Des Mithraskultes: Architektur Und Kultpraxis Am Beispiel Der Tempel Von Guglingen, Kreis Heilbronn

Archaologie Des Mithraskultes: Architektur Und Kultpraxis...

Author: Ines Siemers-Klenner
ISBN: 9783954904457
Format: Hardback
$274.56

Bei der Erschliessung eines Gewerbegebietes fur Guglingen wurden im Randbereich eines vicus in den Jahren 1999 und...  Read More >>

Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Contested Desires

Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism,...

Author: Birgit Meyer (University of Utrecht, the Netherlands) ,  Terje Stordalen (University of Oslo, Norway)
ISBN: 9781350225756
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Oslo...  Read More >>

Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Material Culture in Motion, c.1780 - 1980

Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North...

Author: Beverly Lemire ,  Laura Peers
ISBN: 9780228003991
Format: Paperback
$84.09

An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, this book explores...  Read More >>

Representing Jewish Thought: Proceedings of the 2015 Institute of Jewish Studies Conference Held in Honour of Professor Ada Rapoport-Albert

Representing Jewish Thought: Proceedings of the 2015...

Author: Agata Paluch
ISBN: 9789004446137
Format: Hardback
$398.64

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Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America: Material Culture in Motion, c.1780 - 1980

Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North...

Author: Beverly Lemire ,  Laura Peers
ISBN: 9780228003984
Format: Hardback
$256.16

An original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, this book explores...  Read More >>

Gifts, Romance, and Consumer Culture

Gifts, Romance, and Consumer Culture

Author: Yuko Minowa ,  Russell W. Belk
ISBN: 9780367733346
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book addresses gift giving among consumers attempting to express and construct romantic love. It lies at the...  Read More >>

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