Compiled by Ellen Hostetter, Ph.D., Book Review Editor for Material Culture
Contact: ehostetter@uca.edu or call 501-205-6301.
Anderson, Timothy G., and Schoen, eds. Settling Ohio: First Peoples and Beyond. Ohio University Press, 2023.
Andres, Lauren. Adaptable Cities and Temporary Urbanisms. Columbia University Press, 2025.
Aranda-Alvarado, Rocio, and Deborah Cullen-Morales, eds. A Handbook of Latinx Art. University of California Press, 2025.
Ashkenazi, Ofer, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann, and Shira Miron, eds. Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.
Avrami. Second-Order Preservation: Social Justice and Climate Action through Heritage Policy. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Azzouz, Ammar. Domicide: Architecture, War and the Destruction of Home in Syria. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.
Bardes, John. The Carceral City: Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930. The University of North Carolina Press, 2024.
Barrett, Jennifer, Avril Alba, and Dirk Moses, eds. The Holocaust Museum and Human Rights: Transnational Perspectives on Contemporary Memorials. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025.
Bendall, Sarah A., and Serena Dyer, eds. Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, and Material Culture. Amsterdam University Press, 2024.
Benjamin, Jody. The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700–1850. Ohio University Press, 2024.
Block, Elizabeth L. Beyond Vanity: The History and Power of Hairdressing. The MIT Press, 2024.
Brown, Willa Hammitt. Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Buck, Pamela. Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs. University of Delaware Press, 2024.
Burchmore, Alex, ed. Material Selves: Object Biographies and Identities in Motion. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2024.
Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio, and Adrian Shubert, eds. The Spanish Civil War in 100 Objects: A Material History of the Conflict and Its Legacy. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Chatterjee, Tupur. Projecting Desire: Media Architectures and Moviegoing in Urban India. NYU Press, 2025.
Christensen, Peter H. Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture. The MIT Press, 2024.
Cleary, Patricia. Mound City: The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis. University of Missouri Press, 2024.
David, Lea. A Victim’s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights. Columbia University Press, 2024.
Deaton, Charles W. The Great Texas Stamp Collection: How Some Stubborn Texas Confederate Postmasters, a Handful of Determined Texas Stamp Collectors, and a Few of the World’s Greatest Philatelists Created, Discovered, and Preserved Some of the World’s Most Valuable Postage Stamps. University of Texas Press, 2024.
Donahue, Jack. Under the Asphalt: The Hidden Economics of Parking Lots. Defenestration Press, 2025.
Dyck, Erika. Psychedelics: A Visual Odyssey. The MIT Press, 2024.
Edwards, Nina. The Virtues of Underwear: Modesty, Flamboyance and Filth. Reaktion Books, 2024.
Elmore, Bart, Rachel S. Gross, and Sherri Sheu, eds. Big Box USA: The Environmental Impact of America’s Biggest Retail Stores. University of Wyoming Press, 2024.
Fend, Mechthild, Jennifer Germann, and Melissa Hyde, eds. Thinking Women and Art in the Long Eighteenth Century: Strategic Reinterpretations. Amsterdam University Press, 2025.
Forth, Aidan. Camps: A Global History of Mass Confinement. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Fox, William L., Mark Klett, Hillary Mushkin, Britt Salvesen, Kim Stringfellow, Jason Weems, Will Wilson, and Amy Scott, eds. Out of Site: Survey Science and the Hidden West. Autry Museum of the American West, 2024.
Giguere. Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century America. University of Michigan Press, 2024.
Godlewski, Joseph. The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra: Spatial Entanglements. Routledge, 2024.
Gowers, Emily. Small Stuff of Roman Antiquity. First Edition. University of California Press, 2025.
Greenwalt, Dale E. Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Gross, Rachel S. Shopping All the Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America. Yale University Press, 2024.
Guo, Li, Douglas Eyman, and Hongmei Sun, eds. Games and Play in Chinese and Sinophone Cultures. University of Washington Press, 2024.
Hall, Debbie. Adventures in Maps. Bodleian Library, 2024.
Handel, Dan. Designed Forests: A Cultural History. Routledge, 2024.
Harris, Leslie M., Clarence Lang, Rhonda Y. Williams, and Joe William Trotter, eds. Black Urban History at the Crossroads: Race and Place in the American City. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024.
Hass, Linda, and Maurice Imhoff. The Surprising Automotive Heritage of Jackson Michigan. Jackson County Michigan Historical Society, 2025.
Hilu, Reem. The Intimate Life of Computers: Digitizing Domesticity in the 1980s. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Hogue, Martin. Making Camp: A Visual History of Camping’s Most Essential Items and Activities. Princeton Architectural Press, 2023.
Holmes, Helen. The Materiality of Nothing: Exploring Our Everyday Relationships with Objects Absent and Present. Routledge, 2024.
Horn-Muller, Ayurella. Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South. Louisiana State Press, 2024.
Hornsby, Stephen J. Cod Coasts: Cultural Landscapes of the Cod Fishery from Cape Cod to Labrador. University of Maine Press, 2025.
Howey, Meghan C. L. The Shock of Colonialism in New England: Fragments from a Frontier. The University of Alabama Press, 2025.
Hunt, William P.A. Origins of the Georgia Coast: Retracing the Rich History of the Georgia Lowcountry. University of Oklahoma Press, 2025.
Hunting, Mary Anne, and Kevin D. Murphy. Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Jacobson, Brian. The Cinema of Extractions: Film Materials and Their Forms. Columbia University Press, 2025.
Jameson, John H., Sherene Baugher, and Richard Veit, eds. Monuments and Memory: Archaeological Perspectives on Commemoration. University Press of Florida, 2025.
Kansas, Gene. Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, a Journey through Atlanta’s National Treasure. University of Georgia Press, 2025.
Kisin, Eugenia. Aesthetics of Repair: Indigenous Art and the Form of Reconciliation. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Koehl, Albert. Wheeling through Toronto: A History of the Bicycle and Its Riders. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
Krutak, Lars. Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity. University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2024.
Lampros, Dean G. Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
Lemke, Ashley. The Architecture of Hunting: The Built Environment of Hunter-Gatherers and Its Impact on Mobility, Property, Leadership, and Labor. Texas A&M University Press, 2024.
Lyall, Victoria I. El Mar Caribe: The American Mediterranean. Oklahoma University Press, 2024.
Marrs, Aaron W. The American Transportation Revolution. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
May, Simon. The Power of Cute. Princeton University Press, 2025.
Miron, Rose. Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Montalvo, Maria R. Enslaved Archives: Slavery, Law, and the Production of the Past. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
Mullaney, Thomas S. The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age. The MIT Press, 2024.
Museum, Kentucky Derby, Jessica K. Whitehead, and Chris Goodlett. The History of the Kentucky Derby in 75 Objects. University Press of Kentucky, 2024.
Narath, Albert. Solar Adobe: Energy, Ecology, and Earthen Architecture. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Nash, Gloria R. Looking Back at the Future: Photographing Vintage Leftovers of New York’s World’s Fairs. N.R.G. Press, 2024.
Neff, Hector. Fire and Salt: Human Niche Construction and Holocene Landscape Evolution on the Pacific Coast of Southern Mesoamerica. University of New Mexico Press, 2024.
Ocejo, Richard E. Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City. Princeton University Press, 2024.
O’Rourke, Kathryn E., and Ben Koush. Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture. University of Texas Press, 2024.
Paoletti, Giulia. Portrait and Place: Photography in Senegal, 1840–1960. Princeton University Press, 2024.
Picone, Maria de los Angeles. Landscaping Patagonia: Spatial History and Nation-Making in Chile and Argentina. The University of North Carolina Press, 2025.
Plummer, Sharbreon. Of Salt and Spirit: Black Quilters in the American South. University Press of Mississippi, 2024.
Rockman, Seth. Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery. University of Chicago Press, 2024.
Ross, Corey. Liquid Empire: Water and Power in the Colonial World. Princeton University Press, 2024.
Rouleau, Laura Walikainen. Private Spaces in Public Places: Comfort Stations, Fitting Rooms, Public Baths, and Locker Rooms in America, 1880–1930. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024.
Schrank, Zach. Indiana Transformations: Human Impacts on the Hoosier Landscape. Indiana University Press, 2025.
Scorer, James. Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century: Transgressing the Frame. University of Texas Press, 2024.
Serlin, David. Window Shopping with Helen Keller: Architecture and Disability in Modern Culture. University of Chicago Press, 2025.
Shoop, Tom. A Place Called Ilda: Race and Resilience at a Northern Virginia Crossroads. Rivanna, 2024.
Sioli, Angeliki, Nishat Awan, and Kristopher Palagi, eds. Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices. Cornell University Press, 2024.
Smith, Maureen M., Daniel A. Nathan, and Sarah K. Fields, eds. Sports through the Lens: Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs. University of Texas Press, 2025.
Stanton, Mary. Recreation without Humiliation: Black Leisure in the Twentieth-Century South. University of Georgia Press, 2024.
Tavares, Andre. Architecture Follows Fish: An Amphibious History of the North Atlantic. The MIT Press, 2024.
Thompson, Raymond. Appalachian Ghost: A Photographic Reimagining of the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster. University Press of Kentucky, 2024.
Touloumi, Olga. Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior. University of Minnesota Press, 2024.
Turner, Dare, and Leila Grothe, eds. Preoccupied: Indigenizing the Museum. Baltimore Museum of Art & University of Washington Press, 2024.
Van Slyck, Abigail A. Playhouses and Privilege: The Architecture of Elite Childhood. University of Minnesota Press, 2025.
Wheeler, Rhana Gittens. Ghosts of Atlanta: Cultural Gentrification of the Black Mecca. University Press of Mississippi, 2024.
Wiencek, Henry Alexander. Oil Cities: The Making of North Louisiana’s Boomtowns, 1901-1930. University of Texas Press, 2024.
Wilkens, Danielle S. The Transatlantic Design Network. University of Virginia Press, 2024.
Wright, Aaron M., ed. Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology. University of Utah Press, 2024.
Yee, David. Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976. University of Nebraska Press, 2024.