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The Objects of Life in Central Africa: The History of Consumption and Social Change, 1840-1980

The Objects of Life in Central Africa: The History of...

Author: Robert Ross ,  Marja Hinfelaar
ISBN: 9789004254909
Format: Paperback
$174.24

In The Objects of Life in Central Africa the history of consumption and social change from 1840 until 1980 is explored....  Read More >>

Things Bogans Like: Tribal tatts to reality tv: how to recognise the twenty-first century bogan

Things Bogans Like: Tribal tatts to reality tv: how...

Author: E. Chas McSween ,  Enron Hubbard
ISBN: 9780733630415
Format: Paperback
$22.99

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The Materials of Exchange between Britain and North East America, 1750-1900

The Materials of Exchange between Britain and North...

Author: Daniel Maudlin ,  Robin Peel
ISBN: 9781409462439
Format: Hardback
$315.00

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The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘Series’

The Making of Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘Series’

Author: David Watt
ISBN: 9780859898690
Format: Hardback
$396.00

The first book-length study of Thomas Hoccleve’s ‘Series’ (1419-21), a medieval compilation of texts that exemplify...  Read More >>

The Food Crisis: Implications for Labor

The Food Crisis: Implications for Labor

Author: Debdulal Saha ,  Christoph Scherrer
ISBN: 9783866183933
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism

Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the...

Author: Karen Ferguson
ISBN: 9780812245264
Format: Hardback
$171.47

Karen Ferguson explores the consequences of the counterintuitive and unequal relationship between the elite liberal...  Read More >>

Minerals, Collecting, and Value Across the US-Mexico Border

Minerals, Collecting, and Value Across the US-Mexico...

Author: Elizabeth Emma Ferry
ISBN: 9780253009364
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections...  Read More >>

Minerals, Collecting, and Value Across the US-Mexico Border

Minerals, Collecting, and Value Across the US-Mexico...

Author: Elizabeth Emma Ferry
ISBN: 9780253009289
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Traces the movement of minerals as they circulate from Mexican mines to markets, museums, and private collections...  Read More >>

Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the...

Author: Daniela Bleichmar ,  Peter C. Mancall
ISBN: 9780812222203
Format: Paperback
$105.60

Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South...  Read More >>

A History of Cheltenham in 100 Objects

A History of Cheltenham in 100 Objects

Author: Steven Blake
ISBN: 9780752461199
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Famous for its spa heritage, Regency architecture, schools and colleges and annual Festivals, Cheltenham was also...  Read More >>

A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory of Orientalism

A Taste for China: English Subjectivity and the Prehistory...

Author: Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, McMaster University)
ISBN: 9780199950980
Format: Hardback
$351.00

Through an examination of England's obsession with Chinese things throughout the long eighteenth century, this book...  Read More >>

Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

Silent Film Comedy and American Culture

Author: Alan Bilton
ISBN: 9781137020246
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture

Home, Materiality, Memory and Belonging: Keeping Culture...

Author: Rachel Hurdley
ISBN: 9780230230286
Format: Hardback
$145.17

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The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World

The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon...

Author: Maren Clegg Hyer (Department of English, Valdosta State University (United States)) ,  Gale R. Owen-Crocker (English, American and Creative Writing, University of Manchester (United Kingdom))
ISBN: 9780859898805
Format: Paperback
$158.37

A collection which introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to the realities of everyday Anglo-Saxon life...  Read More >>

Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics

Digital Rubbish: A Natural History of Electronics

Author: Jennifer Gabrys
ISBN: 9780472035373
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Exploring the materiality of digital devices through electronic waste  Read More >>

Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage

Kentucky Bourbon Whiskey: An American Heritage

Author: Michael R. Veach
ISBN: 9780813141657
Format: Hardback
$73.79

While the true origin of the spirit may never be known for certain, he proposes a compelling new theory. With the...  Read More >>

Touching America's History: From the Pequot War Through WWII

Touching America's History: From the Pequot War Through...

Author: Meredith Mason Brown
ISBN: 9780253008336
Format: Hardback
$79.20

Brings readers in contact with the past through tangible objects and the history these objects evoke  Read More >>

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