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

Written by an international team of experts, the Handbook makes accessible a full range of theoretical and applied approaches to the study of material culture,

The study of material culture is concerned with the relationship between persons and things in the past and in the present, in urban and industrialized and in s

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

Cookbooks. Menus. Ingredients. Dishes. Pots. Kitchens. Markets. Museum exhibitions. These objects, representations, and environments are part of what the volume