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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry / edited by Carolyn White.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultural histories series
- Cultural history of objects ; 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Material culture.
- Anthropology.
- Archaeology (Classical Studies).
- Cultural History (History).
- Decorative Arts and Material Culture (Art).
- Design.
- Material Culture (Anth).
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropology.
- Archaeology (Classical Studies).
- Cultural History (History).
- Decorative Arts and Material Culture (Art).
- Design.
- Material Culture (Anth).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the machine made. The revolution in making, and in consuming the things which were made, impacted on lives at every scale from body to home to workplace to city to nation. Beyond the explosion in technology, scientific knowledge, manufacturing, trade, and museums, changes in class structure, politics, ideology, and morality all acted to transform the world of objects. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.
- Notes:
- Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 20 November 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781474206884
- 1474206883
- OCLC:
- 1285918126
- Publisher Number:
- 193637
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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