Material Culture

The first book to consider the subject, Wholesale Couture: London and Beyond, 1930-70 seeks to revise the notion that wholesale couturiers were sim...

This illustrated book introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life through reference...

The ancient state of Rhodes was famous for many things in the Hellenistic period; it emerged as an economic powerhouse thanks to its strategic posi...

In 1992, Neil Postman presciently coined the term 'technopoly' to refer to 'the surrender of culture to technology'. This book brings together a nu...

This book explores the transformation of the window during the Early Modern Period in Europe. Following the Italian Renaissance, new stylistic norm...

Textiles and clothing are interwoven with Islamic culture. In Islamicate Textiles, readers are taken on a journey from Central Asia to Tanzania to ...

A desire for intimacy in domestic spaces motivated by a growing sense of individualistic expression, an incentive to conceal the labor or enslavem...

Gizmos or: The Electronic Imperative offers a concise series of analyses on the transformative impact of digital devices on American society. With ...

This book offers an introduction to medieval English book-history through a sequence of exemplary analyses of commonplace book-historical problems....

Winner of the 2012 Melville J. Herskovits award (African Studies Association)Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects c...

Things change. Broken and restored, reused and remade, objects transcend their earliest functions, locations, and appearances. While every era witn...

'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...

'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...

What role do material objects play in the in-situ, embodied and spatial circumstances of interaction? How do people organize their embodied conduct...

How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions wer...

Object 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...

In cities awakening to global exchange under European imperial rule, Muslims encountered all sorts of strange and wonderful new thingssynthetic too...

Shortlisted for the History Book Award in Scotland's National Book Awards, 2023 During the long 19th century, Scotland was home to an established ...

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive ap...

Contemporary media history is a rapidly growing field that extends far beyond traditional studies of technology or institutions such as radio, film...