TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harvey, Karen,
TI  - History and material culture: a student`s guide to approaching alternative sources 
T2  - The Routledge guides to using historical sources
SN  - 9780415468497 (hbk)
AV  - GN406 .H58 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Things that shape history : material culture and historical narratives / Giorgio Riello -- Ornament as evidence / Andrew Morrall -- Back yards and beyond : landscapes and history / Marina Moskowitz -- Draping the body and dressing the home : the material culture of textiles and clothes in the Atlantic world, c. 1500-1800 / Beverly Lemire -- Using buildings to understand social history : Britain and Ireland in the seventeenth century / Anne Laurence -- Object biographies : from production to consumption / Karin Dannehl -- Regional identity and material culture / Helen Berry -- Objects and agency : material culture and modernity in China / Frank Dik�otter -- Mundane materiality, or, should small things still be forgotten? Material culture, microhistories and the problem of scale / Sara Pennell -- The case of the missing footstool : reading the absent object / Glenn Adamson
N2  - Harvey opens up the discussion on sources to those beyond the `traditional` textual ones, and into the material realm. Through 12 chapters different historians look at a variety of material sources from around the world and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study history
ER  -