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A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Industry covers the period 1760 to 1900, a time of dramatic change in the material world as objects shifted from the handmade to the …
Theatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatrical genres of tragedy, comedy, …
In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its …
Between 1800 and 1920, the territory and influence claimed by Western empires came to cover a larger portion of the globe than at any time before or since. Why and how did this …
The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services, especially in the new …
“A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair.” Times Literary Supplement 19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from …
“A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair.” Times Literary Supplement The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as …
For both producers and consumers of theatre in the early modern era, art was viewed as a social rather than an individual activity. Emerging in the context of new capitalistic …
‘Home’ is a powerful idea throughout antiquity, from Odysseus’ epic journey to recover his own home, nostalgically longed-for through his long absence, to the implanting of …
This volume addresses the relationship between people and their homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century to around …