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020 _a9780199382286
028 _aBrijwasi Book Distributors
_b;H-87,Lalita Park,Laxmi Nagar,Delhi-110092
_c;BW/004865
_d;20/07/2018
082 _a303.4 ULR
100 _aLaurel Thatcher Ulrich
_a; Ivan Gaskell
_a; Sara Schechner
_a; Sarah Anne Carter
245 _aTangible things
_b: making history through objects
_c/Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
260 _aNew York
_b : Oxford University Press
_c, 2015
300 _axvii, 259 pages
_b : illustrations (chiefly color)
_c ; 26 cm
505 _a Introduction : Thinking with things -- Things in place -- Things unplaced -- Things out of place -- Things in stories, stories in things -- Appendix : Glossary of Harvard collections -- Photo essay : Unexpected discoveries : the joy of object photography.
520 _a 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 between present and past
650 _aSocial Sciences
655 _aSocial evolution
_bCivilization
700 _aLaurel Thatcher Ulrich
942 _cBOOK
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