The historiography of timekeeping is traditionally characterized by a dichotomy between research that investigates the evolution of technical devices on the one

Most historians rely principally on written sources. Yet there are other traces of the past available to historians: the material things that people have chosen

Our lives are filled with objects—ones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they

All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality. This is the first book to capture and study the “material turn” in th

Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study of material culture. Touching on archaeology, art history, li