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

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

Fletcher, Christopher

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Medieval & Renaissance HistoryAnthropologyGeneral World History

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ISBN10: 036770661X
ISBN13: 9780367706616
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 11 2021
Pages: 300
Language: English

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.

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