Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

<p><i>A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age</i> covers the period 1900 to today a time marked by massive global changes in production transportation and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the digital to biotechnology - have created unprecedented scales of disruption shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human where will the 21st century take us? <p/> The 6 volume set of the <i>Cultural History of Objects</i> examines how objects have been created used interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. <p/> <b>Laurie A. Wilkie</b> is Professor at the University of California-Berkeley USA. <b>John M. Chenoweth</b> is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn USA.<br> Volume 6 in the <i>Cultural History of Objects</i> set.<br> General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte</p>