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History and Material Culture: A Student´s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
Karen Harvey
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Description for History and Material Culture: A Student´s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources
Paperback. Editor(s): Harvey, Karen. Series: Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources. Num Pages: 288 pages, 44 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HBA; HBTB; HDA; JFCD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Sources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text. In this new edition of History and Material Culture, contributors consider a range of objects - from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a twenty-first-century shopping trolley - which can help historians develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past. Containing two new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley in the social world, this book examines a variety of material sources ... Read more
Sources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text. In this new edition of History and Material Culture, contributors consider a range of objects - from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a twenty-first-century shopping trolley - which can help historians develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past. Containing two new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley in the social world, this book examines a variety of material sources ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138928671
SKU
V9781138928671
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99-1
About Karen Harvey
Karen Harvey is a Professor of History at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture (2004), The Kiss in History (2005) and The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2012).
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