Material Culture

Growing Down explores the theological and psychological implications of humanity's fascination with technology. Author Jaco Hamman examines how our...

This is the first major study to comprehensively analyse English encounters with the New World in the sixteenth century and their impact on early E...

The untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts 'A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived stra...

Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has a diamond has a story to tell about it. Our stories about diamonds n...

Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette und...

Sewing new understandingsIndigenous beadwork has taken the art world by storm, but it is still sometimes misunderstood as static, anthropological a...

Swedish designers are noted for producing distinctive and elegant forms; their furniture and household goods have an especially loyal following aro...

*A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read of 2024*The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through huma...

*A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read of 2024*The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history's greatest superpower, as told through huma...

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bri...

Arthur Asa Berger, author of an array of texts in communication, popular culture, and social theory, is back with the second edition of his popular...

What our obsession with diamonds reveals about our material culture Images of diamonds appear everywhere in American culture. And everyone who has ...

The human body lies at the centre of our relationship to fashion and textiles. Crafting Anatomies explores how the body has become a catalyst for a...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. These days the bicycle often appears ...

This is an excellent account of the reproduction of collective memory and its associated narratives. It delves into the nature and construction of ...

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

Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sum...

Riot grrrls, punk feminists best known for their girl power activism and message, used punk ideologies and the literacy practice of zine-ing to cre...

Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Boiss intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental...

'Loot held me spellbound from the first page...an expertly-plotted, deeply affecting novel ' Maggie OFarrellYoung toy maker and dreamer Abbas is wh...

During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin and traded, collected and displayed w...

With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals, artefacts and material cultur...

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy. It investigates ...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age covers the period 500 to 1400, examining the creation, use and understanding of human-made object...

Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that peopl...

In this highly original book, Susan E. Hiner looks behind fashions seams and focuses on the women fashion producers both working- and middle-class...

Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cu...

A wonderful gallery of period items related to the Titanic and Olympic, presented and shared by some of the top researchers and collectors in the f...

The Oxford Handbook of Material Culture Studies introduces and reviews current thinking in the interdisciplinary field of material culture studies....

Through their metaphorical and material qualities, textiles can be seductive, exciting, intimate and, at times, shocking and disquieting. This book...