Everyday Political Objects - 9780367706609

Name: Everyday Political Objects - 9780367706609
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Everyday Political ObjectsFrom the Middle Ages to the Contemporary World\nAuthor(s): Christopher Fletcher\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367706609, 978-0367706609\nSynopsis\nEveryday Political Objects examines a series of historical case studies across a very broad timescale, using objects as a means to develop different approaches to understanding politics where both internal and external definitions of the political prove inadequate.\n\nMateriality and objects have gradually made their way into the historians toolbox in recent years, but the distinctive contribution that a set of methods developed for the study of objects can make to our understanding of politics has yet to be explored. This book shows how everyday objects play a certain role in politics, which is specific to material things. It provides case studies which re-orientate the view of the political in a way that is distinct from, but complementa]