History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide, Harvey Hardcover..

Name: History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide, Harvey Hardcover..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

History and Material CultureA Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources\nAuthor(s): Karen Harvey\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138928664, 978-1138928664\nSynopsis\nSources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text. In this new edition of History and Material Culture, contributors consider a range of objects from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a twenty-first-century shopping trolley which can help historians develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past. Containing two new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley in the social world, this book examines a variety of material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study the distant and the recent past. In a revised introdu.