History and Material Culture by Karen Harvey

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History and Material Culture by Karen Harvey

With new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and the shopping trolley, this edition examines material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how sources can be used to study the past. A new introduction discusses the issues raised when historians use material culture, particularly in the context of the material turn'.

Karen Harvey is a Professor of History at the University of Birmingham. Her publications include Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century: Bodies and Gender in English Erotic Culture (2004), The Kiss in History (2005) and The Little Republic: Masculinity and Domesticity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2012).

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ISBN 13 9781138928671
ISBN 10 1138928674
Title History and Material Culture
Author Karen Harvey
Series Routledge Guides To Using Historical Sources
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published 2017-09-25
Number of pages 262
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