{"product_id":"history-from-things-isbn-9781560986133","title":"History from Things","description":"\u003ci\u003e   History from Things\u003c\/i\u003e explores the many ways objects—defined broadly to range from Chippendale tables and Italian Renaissance pottery to seventeenth-century parks and a New England cemetery—can reconstruct and help reinterpret the past. Eighteen essays describe how to “read” artifacts, how to “listen to” landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry that have previously belonged solely to archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and conservation scientists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Spanning vast time periods, geographical locations, and academic disciplines, \u003ci\u003eHistory from Things\u003c\/i\u003e leaps the boundaries between fields that use material evidence to understand the past. The book expands and redirects the study of material culture—an emerging field now building a common base of theory and a shared intellectual agenda.“Readers should find in \u003ci\u003eHistory from Things\u003c\/i\u003e much to provoke thinking about material culture and a stimulus to the type of interdisciplinary communication that the field of material culture studies has tried to offer.”—\u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eHistory from Things\u003c\/i\u003e reminds us of the intellectual power of artifact analysis. . . . [It] is a useful book for beginning and experienced teachers of social studies, at every grade level, on the ways to use material culture to better understand the past and as routes to reflect on the more abstract features of culture.”—\u003ci\u003eSocial Education\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Eighteen essays discuss the use of artifacts and material culture evidence in broadening historical understanding of the past. Contributors come from a wide array of backgrounds, including art history, anthropology, archaeology, and the history of technology, and the artifacts examined range from Chinese bronzes to the cultural landscape of eighteenth-century English gardens and from New England cemeteries to a twentiety-century steam locomotive. Individually these essays push out the boundaries of material culture study, while collectively they transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries.”—\u003ci\u003eScience, Technology, and Society\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Lubar\u003c\/b\u003e is curator of engineering and industry at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. David Kingery\u003c\/b\u003e is Regents Professor of Anthropology and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Arizona.Eighteen essays describe how to \"read\" artifacts, how to \"listen to\" landscapes and locations, and how to apply methods and theories to historical inquiry.","brand":"Smithsonian Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305270563045,"sku":"NP9781560986133","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781560986133.jpg?v=1767729094","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/history-from-things-isbn-9781560986133","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}