Everyday Political Objects: From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary World - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 036770661X ISBN 13: 9780367706616

Verlag: Routledge, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Everyday Political Objects

examines a series of historical case studies across a very broad timescale, using objects as a means to develop different approaches to understanding politics where both internal and external definitions of the political prove inadequate.

Materiality and objects have gradually made their way into the historian’s toolbox in recent years, but the distinctive contribution that a set of methods developed for the study of objects can make to our understanding of politics has yet to be explored. This book shows how everyday objects play a certain role in politics, which is specific to material things. It provides case studies which re-orientate the view of the political in a way that is distinct from, but complementary to, the study of political institutions, the social history of politics and the analysis of discourse. Each chapter shows, in a distinctive and innovative way, how historians might change their approach to politics by incorporating objects into their methodology.

Analysing case studies from France, the Congo, Burkina Faso, Romania and Britain between the early Middle Ages and the present day makes this study the perfect tool for students and scholars in the disciplines of history, art history, political science, anthropology and archaeology.

 

Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003147428

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Christopher Fletcher

is a Chargé de recherche (Associate Research Professor) with the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) affiliated to the University of Lille. He specializes in late medieval political culture and the history of masculinity. His books include Richard II: Manhood, Youth, and Politics, 1377–99 (2008) and The Palgrave Handbook of Masculinity and Political Culture in Europe

(2018).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 036770661X
• ISBN 13: 9780367706616
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316
• Herausgeber: Fletcher Christopher
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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