1. Introduction: Useful Objects

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 Century

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 in North-Western Burkina