The Archaeology Of Improvement In Britain 1750 1850

Author : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781139462747

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The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750–1850 by Sarah Tarlow Pdf

In this innovative 2007 study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of reform. From bleach baths to window glass, rubbish pits to tea wares, the material culture of the period reflects a particular set of values and aspirations. Tarlow examines the philosophical and historical background to the notion of improvement and demonstrates how this concept is a useful lens through which to examine the material culture of later historical Britain.

Author : Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 1107169348

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The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750-1850 by Sarah Tarlow Pdf

In this innovative 2007 study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of reform. From bleach baths to window glass, rubbish pits to tea wares, the material culture of the period reflects a particular set of values and aspirations. Tarlow examines the philosophical and historical background to the notion of improvement and demonstrates how this concept is a useful lens through which to examine the material culture of later historical Britain.

Author : Professor of Historical Archaeology Sarah Tarlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 051129641X

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Archaeology of Improvement in Britain 1750-1850, The. Cambridge Studies in Archaeology. by Professor of Historical Archaeology Sarah Tarlow Pdf

In this innovative study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of improvement, one of the most current concepts of eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author considers agriculture and the rural environment, towns, and buildings such as working-class housing and institutions of reform. From bleach baths to window glass, rubbish pits to tea wares, the material culture of the period reflects a particular set of values and aspirations. Tarlow examines the philosophical and historical background to the notion of improvement and demonstrates how this concept is a useful lens through which to examine the material culture of later historical Britain.

Author : Quentin Lewis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319221052

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An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts by Quentin Lewis Pdf

This book probes the materiality of Improvement in early 19th century rural Massachusetts. Improvement was a metaphor for human intervention in the dramatic changes taking place to the English speaking world in the 18th and 19th centuries as part of a transition to industrial capitalism. The meaning of Improvement vacillated between ideas of economic profit and human betterment, but in practice, Improvement relied on a broad assemblage of material things and spaces for coherence and enaction. Utilizing archaeological data from the home of a wealthy farmer in rural Western Massachusetts, as well as an analysis of early Republican agricultural publications, this book shows how Improvement’s twin meanings of profit and betterment unfolded unevenly across early 19th century New England. The Improvement movement in Massachusetts emerged at a time of great social instability, and served to ameliorate growing tensions between urban and rural socioeconomic life through a rationalization of space. Alongside this rationalization, Improvement also served to reshape rural landscapes in keeping with the social and economic processes of a modernizing global capitalism. But the contradictions inherent in such processes spurred and buttressed wealth inequality, ecological distress, and social dislocation.

Author : Justin Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107025851

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Slavery and the Enlightenment in the British Atlantic, 1750-1807 by Justin Roberts Pdf

This book focuses on how Enlightenment ideas shaped plantation management and slave work routines. It shows how work dictated slaves' experiences and influenced their families and communities on large plantations in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. It examines plantation management schemes, agricultural routines, and work regimes in more detail than other scholars have done. This book argues that slave workloads were increasing in the eighteenth century and that slave owners were employing more rigorous labor discipline and supervision in ways that scholars now associate with the Industrial Revolution.

Author : Adam Rogers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317633853

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The Archaeology of Roman Britain by Adam Rogers Pdf

Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives of people in Roman Britain needs to be developed, not only for the study of the local population but also those coming into Britain from elsewhere in the Empire who developed distinctive colonial lives. This critical, biographical approach can be extended and applied to places, structures, and things which developed in these provincial contexts as they were used and experienced over time. This book uniquely combines the study of all of these elements to access the character of Roman Britain and the lives, experiences, and identities of people living there through four centuries of occupation. Drawing on the concept of the biography and using it as an analytical tool, author Adam Rogers situates the archaeological material of Roman Britain within the within the political, geographical, and temporal context of the Roman Empire. This study will be of interest to scholars of Roman archaeology, as well as those working in biographical themes, issues of colonialism, identity, ancient history, and classics.

Author : Catarina Ginja,Elizabeth Wright
Publisher : Lockwood Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781948488747

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Cattle and People by Catarina Ginja,Elizabeth Wright Pdf

This volume originates in a conference session that took place at the 2018 International Council of Archaeozoology conference in Ankara, Turkey, entitled "Humans and Cattle: Interdisciplinary Perspectives to an Ancient Relationship." The aim of the session was to bring together zooarchaeologists and their colleagues from various other research fields working on human cattle interactions over time. The contributions in this volume reflect well the breadth of work being undertaken on the ancient relationship between humans and cattle across the continents of Europe, Africa and Asia, and from the late Pleistocene to postmedieval period. Almost all involve the study of archaeological cattle remains and use different zooarchaeological methods, but the combination of these approaches with that of ethnography, isotopes and genetics is also featured. Author Interview

Author : Richard W. Hoyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351946636

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Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain by Richard W. Hoyle Pdf

A great deal has been written about the acceleration of English agriculture in the early modern period. In the late middle ages it was hard to see that English agriculture was so very different from that of the continent, but by 1750 levels of agricultural productivity in Britain were well ahead of those general in northern Europe. The country had become much more urban and the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture had fallen. Customary modes of behaviour, whilst often bitterly defended, had largely been swept away. Contemporaries were quite clear that a process of improvement had taken place which had seen agriculture reshaped and made much more productive. Exactly what that process was has remained surprisingly obscure. This volume addresses the fundamental notion of improvement in the development of the British landscape from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. Contributors present a variety of cases of how improvement, custom and resistance impacted on the local landscape, which includes manorial estates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons. Disputes between tenants and landlords, and between neighbouring landlords, over improvement meant that new economic and social identities were forged in the battle between innovation and tradition. The volume also includes an analysis of the role of women as agricultural improvers and a case study of what can happen when radical improvement failed. The volume will be essential reading for scholars of landscape studies, rural and agrarian history, but will also provide a useful context for anybody studying the historical legacy of mankind's exploitation of the environment and its social, economic, legal and political consequences.

Author : Roy Lesley Adkins,Victoria Leitch
Publisher : Constable
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781472127747

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The Handbook of British Archaeology by Roy Lesley Adkins,Victoria Leitch Pdf

For over 25 years The Handbook of British Archaeology has been the foremost guide to archaeological methods, artefacts and monuments, providing clear explanations of all specialist terms used by archaeologists. This completely revised and updated edition is packed with the latest information and now includes the most recent developments in archaeological science. Meticulously researched, every section has been extensively updated by a team of experts. There are chapters devoted to each of the archaeological periods found in Britain, as well as two chapters on techniques and the nature of archaeological remains. All the common artefacts, types of sites and current theories and methods are covered. The growing interest in post-medieval and industrial archaeology is fully explored in a brand new section dealing with these crucial periods. Hundreds of new illustrations enable instant comparison and identification of objects and monuments - from Palaeolithic handaxes to post-medieval gravestones. Several maps pinpoint the key sites, and other features include an extensive bibliography and a detailed index. The Handbook of British Archaeology is the most comprehensive resource book available and is essential for anyone with an interest in the subject - from field archaeologists and academics to students, heritage professionals, Time Team followers and amateur enthusiasts.

Author : Jonathan Finch,Katherine Giles
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1843833700

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Estate Landscapes : Design, Improvement and Power in the Post-medieval Landscape by Jonathan Finch,Katherine Giles Pdf

An exciting study of the social and landscape phenomena of the Estate Landscape. In recent years, the post-medieval landscape has attracted new interest from archaeologists, historians, and geographers concerned to understand the development of the historic environment. One of the key structuring elements within these landscapes from the sixteenth century until the aftermath of the Second World War was undoubtedly the landed estate. However, it was not until the late nineteenth century that any systematic attempt to quantify the presence of these estates was undertaken, prompted by the move to democratic reform and the persistent link between political power and landed wealth. Yet the importance of the landed estate in structuring power, social relationships, and both agricultural and industrial production was not limited to the UK. From the eighteenth century, the link between the UK estates and patterns of landholding and exploitation in the colonies became increasingly complex and recursive. This volume explores the relationships between the form and structure of British and Colonial estate landscapes, their agricultural management and the political structures and social relationships they reproduced. The articles address themes as diverse as the creation and development of the agrarian landscape, improvement, ornamental landscapes and gardens and estate architecture. Overall, it highlights the wealth and diversity of existing scholarship and suggests new directions for post-medieval archaeology in this dynamic area of research.

Author : Peter Davies,Penny Crook ,Tim Murray
Publisher : Sydney University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781920899790

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An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement by Peter Davies,Penny Crook ,Tim Murray Pdf

The archaeological assemblage from the Hyde Park Barracks is one of the largest, most comprehensive and best preserved collections of artefacts from any 19th-century institution in the world. Concealed for up to 160 years in the cavities between floorboards and ceilings, the assemblage is a unique archaeological record of institutional confinement, especially of women. The underfloor assemblage dates to the period 1848 to 1886, during which a female Immigration Depot and a Government Asylum for Infirm and Destitute Women occupied the second and third floors of the Barracks. Over the years the women discarded and swept beneath the floor thousands of clothing and textile fragments, tobacco pipes, religious items, sewing equipment, paper scraps and numerous other objects, many of which rarely occur in typical archaeological deposits. These items are presented in detail in this book, and provide unique insight into the private lives of young female migrants and elderly destitute women, most of whom will never be known from historical records.

Author : April Kamp-Whittaker
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031375781

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Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting by April Kamp-Whittaker Pdf

Author : Kate Retford,Susanna Avery-Quash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501337314

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The Georgian London Town House by Kate Retford,Susanna Avery-Quash Pdf

For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.

Author : Sara Pennell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441166975

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The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 by Sara Pennell Pdf

Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the construction of domestic relations between husband and wife, masters, mistresses and servants and householders and outsiders; and as a crucial resource in contemporary heritage landscapes.

Author : Marilyn Palmer,Peter Neaverson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0415166268

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Industrial Archaeology by Marilyn Palmer,Peter Neaverson Pdf

Industrial Archaeology sets out a coherent methodology for the discipline which expands on and extends beyond the purely functional analysis of industrial landscapes, structures and artefacts to their cultural meaning.