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The fourteen essays in this volume provide an important cross section of new research on the current state of American material culture scholarship. From Tupper

"You can tell a lot about people by looking at their stuff - the things they make, process, and value. That is the idea that drives the field of material cultur

The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of

America stocks its shelves with mass-produced goods but fills its imagination with handmade folk objects. In Pennsylvania, the "back to the city" housing moveme

Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlant