Decorative arts

Global politics has been completely transformed by the rise of digitalisation and the politicised use of everyday digital communication tools by ordinary people in citizen engagement and mass protest.

This book focuses on the material practice of ancient literacy through a contextual examination of Roman writing equipment.

Überwachen, beschneiden, verbieten: Seit es das Kino gibt, findet von verschiedenen Seiten Zensur statt.

Religion, Material Culture and Archaeology offers a new understanding of the materiality of religion.

Fashion reveals not only who we are, but whom we aspire to be.

The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums.

This unique ethnographic investigation examines the role that fashion plays in the production of the contemporary Indian luxury aesthetic.

You will never look at social media the same way again.

Popular TV star Candice Olson shows you how to create your dream family room Everybody wants their home's main living space to meet the needs of the whole familyand look great doing it.

Things make us just as much as we make things.

The first major history of photography from coastal East AfricaThe ports of the Swahili coastZanzibar and Mombasa among themhave long been dynamic centers of trade where diverse peoples, ideas, and materials converge.

Stained glass reached the height of its popularity in the Victorian period.

This book opens the doors to the homes of the forgotten poor and traces the goods they owned before, during and after the industrial revolution (c.

Things travel around the globe: they are shipped as mass consumer goods, or transported as souvenirs or gifts.

In this Element, the authors introduce and apply a framework for the linguistic analysis of fake news.

Challenging existing narratives of the relationship between China and Europe, this study establishes how modern English identity evolved through strategies of identifying with rather than against China.

Voters need to be informed to make political decisions, but what if their media diet not only prevents them from getting the information they need, but actively shapes inaccurate perceptions of the world?

'Beautifully written and brilliantly argued, Possessed is one of the few things you really need to own' Daniel GilbertHow ownership came to own us - and what we can do about itOur love affair with possessions seems to be all-consuming, even as we face economic and environmental breaking points.

In this open access publication, Ganaele Langlous describes how textile has been used as a medium of communication since the prehistoric period.

How are love and emotion embodied in material form?

Before the rise of private homes as we now understand them, the realm of personal, private, and local relations in England was the parish, which was also the sphere of poverty management.

Du Moyen Âge à l'Époque contemporaine, l'art décoratif peut être défini par les matériaux, le design et les objets artistiques utilisés à la fois en architecture urbaine et en architecture d'intérieur.

When people encounter consumer goods-sugar, clothes, phones-they find little to no information about their origins.

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions.

Insights from anthropology, religious studies, biblical studies, sociology, classics, and Jewish studies are here combined to provide a cutting-edge guide to dress and religion in the Greco-Roman World and the Mediterranean basin.

This is the first volume to apply insights from the material turn in philosophy to the study of play and games.

With contributions spanning from the Neolithic Age to the Iron Age, this book offers important insights into the religions and ritual practices in ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern communities through the lenses of their material remains.

Inspired by radical Italian designer Enzo Mari, this practical book with step-by-step DIY projects for hand built, beautiful furniture is a tribute to his simple ideas that challenged the consumerism of the furniture industry.

Stitch your love for Taylor Swift's music and style into fabulous crochet creations with Unofficial Taylor Swift Crochet.

A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to todayWhile the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE.

Ross provides a broad survey of pictures and texts concerning saints, from the Early Christian through the late Gothic period.

Being Poland offers a unique analysis of the cultural developments that took place in Poland after World War One, a period marked by Poland's return to independence.

Associations between the cheongsam dress and Chinese cultural identity are well known but what are the meanings of the cheongsam for members of the Chinese diaspora?

Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013.

Digital Theology is a rapidly emerging field of academic research and gaining traction with scholars of Computer Science, Theology, Sociology of Religion and the wider Humanities.

Despite a growing literature on identity theory in the last two decades, much of its current use in archaeology is still driven toward locating and dating static categories such as ‘Phoenician’, ‘Christian’ or ‘native’.

Shortlisted for the History Book Award in Scotland's National Book Awards, 2023Shortlisted for the Society of Authors Translation Prize 2019During the long 19th century, Scotland was home to an established body of skilled jewellers who were able to access a range of materials from the country's varied natural landscape: precious gold and silver; sparkling crystals and colourful stones; freshwater pearls, shells and parts of rare animals.

This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900.

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

This book broadens the discussion of pottery and china in the Victorian era by situating them in the national, imperial, design reform, and domestic debates between 1840 and 1890.

Arts in Earnest explores the unique folklife of North Carolina from ruddy ducks to pranks in the mill.

An in-depth, illustrated history of South Carolina's Lowcountry baskets Coiled grass baskets are icons of Gullah culture.

A lively investigation of the intimate connections we maintain with the things we toss away It's hard to think of trash as anything but a growing menace.

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy.

This is a study of a distinctive brand of modernism that first emerged in late nineteenth-century Germany and remained influential throughout the inter-war years and beyond.

In this open access publication, Ganaele Langlous describes how textile has been used as a medium of communication since the prehistoric period.

The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators.