Material Culture
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Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70
Liz TregenzaCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were sim...
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The First World War in 100 Objects
Peter DoyleCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Objects allow us to reach out and touch the past and they play a living role in history today. Through them we can understand the experience of men...
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The Material Culture of Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World
Liverpool University PressCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This illustrated book introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life through reference...
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Religious Life in Late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes
Juliane ZachhuberCurrent price €109.79Original price €121.99The ancient state of Rhodes was famous for many things in the Hellenistic period; it emerged as an economic powerhouse thanks to its strategic posi...
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Confronting Technopoly: Charting a Course Towards Human Survival
Intellect BooksCurrent price €80.99Original price €89.99In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'. This book brings together a nu...
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Fenestration Practice and Theory in Early Modern Europe
Hentie LouwCurrent price €91.79Original price €101.99This book explores the transformation of the window during the Early Modern Period in Europe. Following the Italian Renaissance, new stylistic norm...
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Islamicate Textiles: Fashion, Fabric, and Ritual
Faegheh ShiraziCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to ...
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Intimate Interiors: Sex, Politics, and Material Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Bedroom and Boudoir
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €93.59Original price €103.99A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavem...
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Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism: Queerwords: Sexuality and the Politics of Culture: 2015
Raymond Williams SocietyCurrent price €16.65Original price €18.50Current price €16.65Original price €18.50Save 10% -
The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
Abigail WilliamsCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99A vivid exploration of the evolution of reading as an essential social and domestic activity during the eighteenth century Two centuries before the...
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Gizmos or: The Electronic Imperative: How Digital Devices have Transformed American Character and Culture
Arthur Asa BergerCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Gizmos or: The Electronic Imperative offers a concise series of analyses on the transformative impact of digital devices on American society. With ...
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Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers
Ralph HannaCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99This book offers an introduction to medieval English book-history through a sequence of exemplary analyses of commonplace book-historical problems....
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Vigilant Things: On Thieves, Yoruba Anti-Aesthetics, and The Strange Fates of Ordinary Objects in Nigeria
David T DorisCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association)Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects c...
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Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century: Art, Mobility, and Change
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witn...
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All The Houses I''ve Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us
Kieran YatesCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'I tore through the pages. A book I'll read over and over again' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Illuminating' OBSERVER We've all had our share of mould, do...
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All The Houses I''ve Ever Lived In: Finding Home in a System that Fails Us
Kieran YatesCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50'I tore through the pages. A book I'll read over and over again' CANDICE CARTY-WILLIAMS'Illuminating' OBSERVER We've all had our share of mould, do...
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Objects, Bodies and Work Practice
Multilingual MattersCurrent price €119.69Original price €132.99What role do material objects play in the in-situ, embodied and spatial circumstances of interaction? How do people organize their embodied conduct...
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Showing Resistance: Propaganda and Modernist Exhibitions in Britain, 193353
Harriet AtkinsonCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions wer...
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Doll
Maria Teresa HartCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The haunted doll has long been a trope i...
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Modern Things on Trial: Islams Global and Material Reformation in the Age of Rida, 18651935
Leor HaleviCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful new thingssynthetic too...
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The Material Landscapes of Scotlands Jewellery Craft, 1780-1914
Sarah LaurensonCurrent price €23.39Original price €25.99Shortlisted for the History Book Award in Scotland's National Book Awards, 2023 During the long 19th century, Scotland was home to an established ...
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The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Perspectives on Culture, Performance and Identity
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive ap...
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Expanding media histories: Cultural and material perspectives
Nordic Academic PressCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film...
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Ancient Egyptian Gold: Archaeology and science in jewellery (3500-1000 BC)
McDonald Institute MonographsCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99Current price €71.09Original price €78.99Save 10% -
Postcard America: Curt Teich and the Imaging of a Nation, 1931-1950
Jeffrey L. MeikleCurrent price €45.89Original price €50.99Extensively illustrated with representative images, this unique book illuminates the cultural significance of the highly colorized linen postcards ...
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Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the con...
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Apostolic Iconography and Florentine Confraternities in the Age of Reform
Douglas N. DowCurrent price €143.09Original price €158.99Focusing on artists and architectural complexes which until now have eluded scholarly attention in English-language publications, Apostolic Iconogr...
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Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past
Robert WellingtonCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Antiquarianism and the Visual Histories of Louis XIV: Artifacts for a Future Past provides a new interpretation of objects and images commissioned ...
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Provenance and Possession: Acquisitions from the Portuguese Empire in Renaissance Italy
K. J. P. LoweCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99A thought-provoking study of how knowledge of provenance was not transferred with enslaved people and goods from the Portuguese trading empire to R...
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William Hunter''s World: The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €134.09Original price €148.99Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collec...
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Poetry and Crisis: Cultural Politics and Citizenship in the Wake of the Madrid Bombings
Jill RobbinsCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99On March 11, 2004, Islamist terrorists carried out a massive bombing on Madrids largely working-class commuter trains, leaving 191 people dead and ...
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The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second Edition
Marcel DanesiCurrent price €67.49Original price €74.99Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a technique and a science that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its ...
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Accidental Wilderness: The Origins and Ecology of Toronto''s Tommy Thompson Park
Walter H. KehmCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99A fortuitous urban miracle, Tommy Thompson Park is an oasis of accidental wilderness on Torontos lakeshore. Initially created as a landfill site on...
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The Severed Head: Capital Visions
Julia KristevaCurrent price €73.79Original price €81.99Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from t...
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Neither Use nor Ornament: A Cultural Biography of Clutter and Procrastination
Tracey PottsCurrent price €84.14Original price €98.99Neither use nor ornament is a book about personal productivity, narrated from the perspective of its obstacles: clutter and procrastination. It off...
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iMedia: The Gendering of Objects, Environments and Smart Materials
Sarah KemberCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99What can queer feminist writing strategies such as parody and irony do to outsmart the sexism of smart objects, environments and materials and open...
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Popular Culture and the Civic Imagination: Case Studies of Creative Social Change
New York University PressCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99Winner, 2021 Ray and Pat Browne Edited Collection Award, given by the Popular Culture Association How popular culture is engaged by activists to ef...
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At Home with the Poor: Consumer Behaviour and Material Culture in England, C.1650-1850
Joseph HarleyCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c....
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Gramsci''s Pathways: Historical Materialism Volume 102
Guido LiguoriCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99In this ground-breaking study, leading Gramsci scholar Guido Liguori unearths the philological pathways through which the Sardinian Communist's thi...
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Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities
Hollie L.S. MorganCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99First full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of t...
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Fashion and Materialism
Ulrich LehmannCurrent price €107.09Original price €118.99A cultural and historical philosophy of fashion in economic and social life from the 1830s to the present dayUlrich Lehmann brings together methods...
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Pigments
Barbara H. BerrieCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50A concise illustrated history of one of arts most important and elusive elementsOver the millennia, humans have used pigments to decorate, narrate,...
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The Severed Head: Capital Visions
Julia KristevaCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from t...
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Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600
Bloomsbury Publishing PLCCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99What does material culture tell us about gendered identities and how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and things? If we look at the objec...
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Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier
Patrick GrantCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN ...
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Worlds of Byzantium: Religion, Culture, and Empire in the Medieval Near East
Cambridge University PressCurrent price €147.59Original price €163.99Worlds of Byzantium offers a new understanding of what it means to study the history and visual culture of the Byzantine empire during late antiqui...
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Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time
Helen MolesworthCurrent price €33.99Original price €39.99Discover a dazzling deep-dive into the history of the world through a totally new lens, as told by the V&As Senior Jewellery Curator. Includes ...
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Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Chloe Wigston SmithCurrent price €57.59Original price €63.99The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism In the eighteenth century, womens contributions to ...
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