Cultural histories of the material world
In: Cultural histories of the material world
"This book considers how to study material culture from a historical perspective, and explores how studying material and materiality can enable new and different cultural historical perspectives. While gathering some of the most interesting thinkers in their respective fields, the contributions also examine material culture through a historiographical lens, considering how the field slipped between disciplines in the twentieth century, and how it has become more prominent inside and outside the academy in the last twenty years or so. The book builds on the recent proliferation of studies of materiality to offer a different, theoretically coherent approach to the topic"--