Everyday political objects : from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world

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 gradu...

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Auteur principal : Fletcher Christopher David (Directeur de publication)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Everyday political objects : from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world / edited by Christopher Fletcher
Publié : Abingdon, New York : Routledge , 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-300 p.)
Sujets :
  • Introduction : useful objects / Christopher Fletcher
  • Rings of power : the interpretation of early medieval objects of adornment / Julie Renou
  • The practical and symbolic uses of the medieval horn : from power object to common instrument / Luc Bourgeois
  • A history of domestic disorder : the French royal household in the thirteenth and fourteenth century / Gil Bartholeyns
  • The prince and his coffer : the material functions and symbolic power of an everyday political object at the end of the Middle Ages / Jean-Baptiste Santamaria
  • Teapots, fans and snuffboxes : the portable politics of gender and empire in eighteenth century Britain / Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding
  • Wooden shoes and Wellington boots : the politics of footwear in Georgian Britain / Matthew McCormack
  • The fan during the French Revolution : from the elite to the people / Mathilde Semal
  • Resisting with objects? : seditious political objects and their 'agency' in Restoration France (1814-1830) / Emmanuel Fureix
  • A sonorous politics of everyday objects : coal workers' charivaris during the Anzin strike of 1884 / Adrien Quièvre
  • Political fashion : elegance as subversion in the Congos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Manuel Charpy
  • Citizen Browning' : the banality of a revolutionary object, c.1905-c.1912 / Eric Fournier
  • Bringing audible propaganda into the everyday : the politicization of the phonograph record from its origins to the SERP, 1888-2000 / Jonathan Thomas
  • Image, voice and voivodes : communist diafilm in Romania, 1950-1989 / Alexandra Ilina
  • The trajectory of a spear : the materiality of an everyday political object in northwestern Burkina / Laurence Douny