Author(s): Christopher Fletcher
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Cover
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Copyright
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: useful things
2 Rings of power: the interpretation of early medieval objects of adornment
3 The practical and symbolic uses of the medieval horn: from power object to common instrument
4 A history of domestic disorder: the French royal household in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
5 The prince and his coffer: the material functions and symbolic power of an everyday political object at the end of the Middle Ages
6 Teapots, fans and snuffboxes: the portable politics of gender and empire in eighteenth-century Britain
7 Wooden shoes and wellington boots: the politics of footwear in Georgian Britain
8 The fan during the French Revolution: from the elite to the people
9 Resisting with objects? Seditious political objects and their ‘Agency’ in restoration France (1814–1830)
10 A sonorous politics of everyday objects: coal workers’ charivaris during the Anzin strike of 1884
11 Political fashion: elegance as subversion in the Congos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
12 ‘Citizen Browning’: the banality of a revolutionary object, c.1905–c.1912
13 Bringing audible propaganda into the everyday: the politicization of the phonograph record from its origins to the SERP, 1888–2000
14 Image, voice and voivodes: communist diafilm in Romania (1950–1989)
15 The trajectory of a spear: the materiality of an everyday political object
Bibliography of secondary material
Index
