Material culture books

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Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900

Concepts of Value in European Material Culture, 1500-1900...

Author: Bert De Munck ,  ies Lyna
ISBN: 9781472451965
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past

Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV:...

Author: Robert Wellington
ISBN: 9781472460332
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation...  Read More >>

The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and Society

The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and...

Author: Adam Drazin ,  Susanne Küchler
ISBN: 9781472592637
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Materials play a central role in society. Beyond the physical and chemical properties of materials, their cultural...  Read More >>

Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350–1550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption

Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350–1550: Packaging,...

Author: Emma Cayley (Department of Modern Languages, University of Exeter (United Kingdom)) ,  Susan Powell (Emeritus Professor of Medieval Texts and Culture, University of Salford.)
ISBN: 9781781382691
Format: Paperback
$145.17

This collaborative collection considers the packaging, presentation and consumption of medieval manuscripts and...  Read More >>

Mulberry: The material culture of mulberry trees

Mulberry: The material culture of mulberry trees

Author: Stephen Bowe (St Nicholas Centre, Liverpool John Moores University (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781781382431
Format: Paperback
$72.47

The book is fundamentally about mulberry trees (both Morus nigra and Morus alba) and all the artefacts created from...  Read More >>

Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising

Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter...

Author: Lisa Godson (National College of Art and Design Dublin (Ireland)) ,  Joanna Brück (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Bristol (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9781781381229
Format: Hardback
$396.00

This volume of essays examines the material and visual culture of the 1916 Rising – from museum displays and family...  Read More >>

Material Cultures, Migrations, and Identities: What the Eye Cannot See

Material Cultures, Migrations, and Identities: What...

Author: Anna Pechurina
ISBN: 9781137321770
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music

Manuscript Inscriptions in Early English Printed Music...

Author: David Greer
ISBN: 9781472445872
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Race and Retail: Consumption Across the Color Line

Race and Retail: Consumption Across the Color Line

Author: Mia Bay ,  Ann Fabian
ISBN: 9780813571706
Format: Paperback
$108.11

Documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have often catered to specific ethnic...  Read More >>

Race and Retail: Consumption Across the Color Line

Race and Retail: Consumption Across the Color Line

Author: Mia Bay ,  Ann Fabian
ISBN: 9780813571713
Format: Hardback
$396.00

Documents the extent to which retail establishments, both past and present, have often catered to specific ethnic...  Read More >>

Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life

Modernism's Other Work: The Art Object's Political Life...

Author: Lisa Siraganian (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Southern Methodist University)
ISBN: 9780190255268
Format: Paperback
$70.95

Modernism's Other Work challenges our view of relationships between aesthetic autonomy and the world of daily life--a...  Read More >>

Images of Blood in American Cinema: The Tingler to The Wild Bunch

Images of Blood in American Cinema: The Tingler to The...

Author: Kjetil Rødje
ISBN: 9781472436726
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores...  Read More >>

Material Cultures in Canada

Material Cultures in Canada

Author: Thomas Allen ,  Jennifer Blair
ISBN: 9781771120142
Format: Paperback
$80.30

Presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political...  Read More >>

Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and the Digital Age

Cultures of Obsolescence: History, Materiality, and...

Author: B. Tischleder ,  S. Wasserman
ISBN: 9781137470898
Format: Hardback
$369.57

Obsolescence is fundamental to the experience of modernity, not simply one dimension of an economic system. The...  Read More >>

The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel

The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel

Author: Cecilia Bjorken-Nyberg
ISBN: 9781472439987
Format: Hardback
$305.00

In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg examines works by authors such as Dorothy...  Read More >>

Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution: constructed space conceptualized

Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution: constructed...

Author: Lynn Churchill ,  Dianne Smith
ISBN: 9781472440631
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Bringing together contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at...  Read More >>

The Art, Literature and Material Culture of the Medieval World

The Art, Literature and Material Culture of the Medieval...

Author: Meg Boulton ,  Jane Hawkes
ISBN: 9781846825613
Format: Hardback
$129.38

The medieval period was long viewed as an unenlightened counterpoint to the 'Classical' and the 'Renaissance, '...  Read More >>

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding...

Author: Andy Pike
ISBN: 9781118556405
Format: Paperback
$51.95

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating...  Read More >>

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding...

Author: Andy Pike
ISBN: 9781118556382
Format: Hardback
$124.95

Origination: The Geographies of Brands and Branding offers innovative theoretical and conceptual frameworks relating...  Read More >>

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary Invention

The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of a Revolutionary...

Author: Alexander Monro
ISBN: 9780141039428
Format: Paperback
$19.99

Presents a story of how a Chinese product has for two millennia allowed knowledge, ideas and religions to spread...  Read More >>

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