History through material culture / Leonie Hannan and Sarah Longair.
By: Hannan, Leonie [author]
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Contributor(s): Longair, Sarah [author] | University of London. Institute of Historical Research.
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BookSeries: IHR research guides: Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2017Description: xvi, 183 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1784991260 (paperback); 9781784991265 (paperback).Subject(s): History -- Research | Material culture -- HistoryDDC classification: 907.2 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 907.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00230717 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
History through material culture is an excellent guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources. Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book provides the first step-by-step guide to developing historical research based around objects. The book makes clear how students and researchers can use these rich material sources to make important, valuable and original contributions to history.
Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and modern periods, this book draws on examples from across the world and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Approaches to the material world -- Planning a research project -- Developing a methodology -- Locating sources: understanding museum collections and other repositories -- Analysing sources -- Writing up findings.
"History through material culture is a unique, step-by-step guide for students and researchers who wish to use objects as historical sources. Responding to the significant, scholarly interest in historical material culture studies, this book makes clear how students and researchers ready to use these rich material sources can make important, valuable and original contributions to history. Written by two experienced museum practitioners and historians, the book recognises the theoretical and practical challenges of this approach and offers clear advice on methods to get the best out of material culture research. With a focus on the early modern and modern periods, this volume draws on examples from across the world and demonstrates how to use material culture to answer a range of enquiries, including social, economic, gender, cultural and global history." -- Publisher's description.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of illustrations (p. vii)
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- Glossary (p. xi)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Approaches to the material world (p. 15)
- 2 Planning a research project (p. 43)
- 3 Developing a methodology (p. 70)
- 4 Locating sources: understanding museum collections and other repositories (p. 95)
- 5 Analysing sources (p. 121)
- 6 Writing up findings (p. 141)
- Afterword (p. 159)
- Select bibliography and resources (p. 163)
- Index (p. 178)
Reviews provided by Syndetics
CHOICE Review
Intended for students of history, this guide to understanding material-culture research by Hannan (Queen's Univ., Belfast, Ireland) and Longair (Univ. of Lincoln, UK) provides a step-by-step approach to those unfamiliar with using nontextual primary sources (other than mass media) as their focus. After outlining a rationale for the use of material culture in history, they organize their volume much like a book on research design, examining the planning of projects, offering different approaches based on whether material culture is the focus or an adjunct to text sources, choosing methodologies (largely from other disciplines), locating and analyzing sources, and writing up the results. Some sections are more complete than others, with those on planning, working with museums and other institutions, and writing being the most successful and well rounded. The planning chapter is especially good, and useful for non-history students as well. The section on analysis is too abbreviated, and students will have to rely on other resources in anthropology, archaeology, cultural geography, and art history for further help. The volume focuses on British sources and approaches, with little information concerning American efforts in this area. Overall, it is recommended for undergraduate and beginning graduate students looking for guidance in this interdisciplinary area. Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduates through graduate students. --Jeffery C. Wanser, Hiram CollegeAuthor notes provided by Syndetics
Leonie Hannan is Research Fellow in Eighteenth-Century History at Queen's University, BelfastSarah Longair is Lecturer in the History of Empire at the University of Lincoln