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An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts - Landscapes of Profit and Betterment at the Dawn of the 19th century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016) Loot Price: R2,014
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An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts - Landscapes of Profit and Betterment at the Dawn of the 19th century...

An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts - Landscapes of Profit and Betterment at the Dawn of the 19th century (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

Quentin Lewis

Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology

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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.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Release date: December 2015
First published: 2016
Authors: Quentin Lewis
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 236
Edition: 1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-22104-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Archaeology > Industrial archaeology
Books > Humanities > History > American history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
Books > History > American history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
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LSN: 3-319-22104-3
Barcode: 9783319221045

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