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WORLD HISTORY / GENERAL

NEW GREENWOOD SERIES

Daily Life in 18th- Daily Life through Artifacts
Century England
Daily Life through Artifacts presents a collection of objects and artifacts from daily life
Second Edition | KIRSTIN OLSEN that shed light on key aspects of social life and culture for specific historical periods
or topics. Each artifact is illustrated with large images, showing interesting detail and
allowing for close-up study. The series serves to demonstrate how objects and artifacts
can be “read” as primary sources to provide greater insight into the people and
societies who created and used them. Each title in the series provides guidance with the
background material for these objects as well as guidance on how to analyze an object or
artifact. Readers will not only learn about the daily life of past societies but also gain the
skills of observation and assessment needed to analyze the objects and draw meaningful
conclusions from them about their context and significance.

FORTHCOMING Artifacts from
Artifacts from Medieval Europe
GREENWOOD JAMES B. TSCHEN-EMMONS
April 2017, 458pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 Ancient Egypt
Print: 978-1-4408-5503-0
$61.00, £47.00, €56.00 BARBARA MENDOZA
eBook: 978-1-4408-5504-7

Informative, richly detailed, and
entertaining, this book portrays daily life
in England in 1700–1800, embracing all
levels of society—from the aristocracy
to the very poor—to describe a nation
grappling with modernity.

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never-anthologized primary sources “ Recommended. Lower-level
• Incorporates information from recent Primary source documents and detailed undergraduates and general
scholarship about 18th-century entries reveal what ancient Egypt was readers. ”
England, especially regarding gender like, using the objects and artifacts of —Choice, July 1, 2015
roles
daily life from the period covering the Using artifacts as primary sources,
Predynastic era through the Græco- this book enables students to
KIRSTIN OLSEN is a history educator Roman period (5000 BCE to 300 CE). comprehensively assess and analyze
and an independent scholar in Santa historic evidence in the context of the
Cruz, CA.
BARBARA MENDOZA, PhD, is medieval period.
ALSO OF INTEREST instructor of art history at Solano
Community College as well as JAMES B. TSCHEN-EMMONS
Check out more Daily Life series titles teacher of an introductory course on teaches history at North Idaho College
on page 40. humanities and history of design at and mythology at Northern Virginia
Southern New Hampshire University- Community College’s Extended
COCE. Learning Institute.

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