19 Best

Material Culture Books

1

The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities

2

Stuff

3

The Social Life of Things

4

In Small Things Forgotten: An Archaeology of Early American Life

5

A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America

6

Death in the Dining Room and Other Tales of Victorian Culture

7

Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors

8

Material Cultures: Why Some Things Matter

9

Handbook of Material Culture

10

Material Culture Studies in America: An Anthology

11

Materiality

12

Culture and Comfort: Parlor Making and Middle Class Identity

13

The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self

14

Material Culture and Mass Consumption

15

Souvenir Nation: Relics, Keepsakes, and Curios from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

16

The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London

17

The White Road: Journey into an Obsession

18

A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts