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

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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

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The Matter of History links the history of people with the history of things through a bold new materialist theory of the past.
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

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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:

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"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
How History Gets Things Wrong
Language: en
Pages: 305
Authors: Alex Rosenberg
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-08-13 - Publisher: MIT Press

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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?