History from Things

History from Things
Author :
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages : 320
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781588343468
ISBN-13 : 1588343464
Rating : 4/5 (464 Downloads)

Book Synopsis History from Things by : Stephen Lubar

Download or read book History from Things written by Stephen Lubar and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History from Things explores the many ways objects—defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery—can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to “read” artifacts, how to “listen to” landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously belonged solely to archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and conservation scientists. Spanning vast time periods, geographical locations, and academic disciplines, History from Things leaps the boundaries between fields that use material evidence to understand the past. The book expands and redirects the study of material culture—an emerging field now building a common base of theory and a shared intellectual agenda.


History from Things Related Books

History from Things
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Stephen Lubar
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-04 - Publisher: Smithsonian Institution

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

History from Things explores the many ways objects—defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century par
The Matter of History
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Timothy J. LeCain
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-09-11 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.
How History Gets Things Wrong
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Alex Rosenberg
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-13 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right?
A History of Everyday Things
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Daniel Roche
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-03-09 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Things which we regard as the everyday objects of consumption (and hence re-purchase), and essential to any decent, civilised lifestyle, have not always been so
Things with a History
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Hector Hoyos
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"The 'New Materialism, ' as developed by such thinkers and critics as Bruno Latour, Jane Bennett, Elizabeth Grosz, and others, have provided new ways of thinkin