Everyday Political Objects: From the Middle Ages to the Contemporary World

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements 1 Introduction: useful things 2 Rings of power: the interpretation of early medieval objects of adornment 3 The practical and symbolic uses of the medieval horn: from power object to common instrument 4 A history of domestic disorder: the French royal household in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries 5 The prince and his coffer: the material functions and symbolic power of an everyday political object at the end of the Middle Ages 6 Teapots, fans and snuffboxes: the portable politics of gender and empire in eighteenth-century Britain 7 Wooden shoes and wellington boots: the politics of footwear in Georgian Britain 8 The fan during the French Revolution: from the elite to the people 9 Resisting with objects? Seditious political objects and their ‘Agency’ in restoration France (1814–1830) 10 A sonorous politics of everyday objects: coal workers’ charivaris during the Anzin strike of 1884 11 Political fashion: elegance as subversion in the Congos of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 12 ‘Citizen Browning’: the banality of a revolutionary object, c.1905–c.1912 13 Bringing audible propaganda into the everyday: the politicization of the phonograph record from its origins to the SERP, 1888–2000 14 Image, voice and voivodes: communist diafilm in Romania (1950–1989) 15 The trajectory of a spear: the materiality of an everyday political object Bibliography of secondary material Index