| Description |
xiv, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Routledge guides to using historical sources |
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Routledge guides to using historical sources.
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| Contents |
Things that shape history: material culture and historical narratives / Giorgio Riello -- Ornament as evidence / Andrew Morrall -- Back yards and beyond: landscapes and history / Marina Moskowitz -- Draping the body and dressing the home: the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800 / Beverly Lemire -- Using buildings to understand social history: Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century / Anne Laurence -- Object biographies: from production to consumption / Karin Dannehl -- Regional identity and material culture / Helen Berry -- Objects and agency: material culture and modernity in China / Frank Dikötter -- Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, microhistories and the problem of scale / Sara Pennell -- The case of the missing footstool: reading the absent object / Glenn Adamson |
| Summary |
Harvey opens up the discussion on sources to those beyond the 'traditional' textual ones, and into the material realm. Through 12 chapters different historians look at a variety of material sources from around the world and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study history |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
History -- Research.
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Material culture -- Research -- Methdology
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Material culture -- Research -- Methodology.
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| Author |
Harvey, Karen, 1971- editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2008042321 |
| ISBN |
041545932X (paperback) |
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0415468493 (hbk.) |
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9780415459327 (paperback) |
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9780415468497 (hbk.) |
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