Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World 9780300271843, 9780300259018, 0300271840

How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic wo

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Revolutionary Things: Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
9780300271843, 9780300259018, 0300271840

How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic wo

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Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. S

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Shortlisted for the Design History Society Scholarship Prize 2001-2002 What do things mean? What does the life of everyd

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The core of archaeology is the relationship between people and things. Left without informants and, in many cases, textu

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Shifts the scholarly conversation on modernism and war from shell shock to material culture Provides the first book-leng

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The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which 'things', ranging from commodities to works of art and

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Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (

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Foregrounds underrepresented agents (women, nature and the nonhuman) in and through the poetry of Theocritus Provides

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Authored by historians, art historians, and historians of science working in the United States, Europe, and South Americ

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In Agency of the Enslaved: Jamaica and the Culture of Freedom in the Atlantic World, D.A. Dunkley challenges the notion

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