History and Material Culture: A Student's Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources - Paperback

by Karen Harvey (Editor)

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'.

Author Biography

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).