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

Material culture studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the relationships between people and their things: the production, history, preservation, a

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 past has left a huge variety of traces in material form. If historians could figure out how to make use of them to create accounts of the past, a far great

The Routledge Handbook of Material Culture in Early Modern Europe marks the arrival of early modern material culture studies as a vibrant, fully-established fie