365118648

Tangible Things [Elektronische Ressource] : Making History through Objects

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher,i1938- ; Gaskell, Ivan,i1955- ; Schechner, Sara J.,i1957-

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014

281 p.

Description based upon print version of record

978-0-19-938228-6

AK 85100 CC 8700 LB 34000 LH 39910

 

f Ausstellung  g Cambridge, Mass. <2011>  Sachkultur  Geschichte 

 

Online-Ausg.: Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest

Online-Ressource

978-0-19-938229-3

 

In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any material thing, when examined closely, can be a link beween present and past. The authors of this book pulled an astonishing array of materials out of storage--from a pencil manufactured by Henry David Thoreau to a bracelet made from iridescent beetles--in a wide range of Harvard University collecti...