Material Culture

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shi...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportat...

A Cultural History of Objects in Antiquity covers the period 500 BCE to 500 CE, examining ancient objects from machines and buildings to furniture ...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Renaissance covers the period 1400 to 1600. The Renaissance was a cultural movement, a time of re-awakening wh...

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...

A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods....

First full-scale guide to the origins and development of the early printed book, and the issues associated with it. The history of the book is now...

A major contribution to the field, this ground-breaking book explores design anthropologys focus on futures and future-making. Examining what desig...

The 1916 Rising is the pivotal yet highly contested moment in Irish history when militant republicans sought to seize political power from Britain,...

Buying (RED) productsfrom Gap T-shirts to Appleto fight AIDS. Drinking a Caring Cup of coffee at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf to support fair t...

In this ethnography of Krakowian society, Siobhan Magee explores essential questions on the relationship between fur and culture in Poland. How can...

Innovative and challenging study that provides fresh insights on the anthropology of death and postcolonial politics. In 1898, just before she was...

What will become of the shops? More than ever, the high street appears to be under mortal threat, its shops boarded up as the sad 'bricks and morta...

The Sunday Times bestselling hit memoir from Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker.'It's real gold... its storytelling first class' Sunday TimesWhat if the t...

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

The sword is an important and multi-faceted symbol of military power, royal and communal authority, religion and mysticism. This study takes the sw...

Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture. It is their material and human cultural infrastructure that also makes them a...

Through much of its history, Italy was Europes heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and someti...