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This volume explores the possibilities of studying embodied
subjects in the past through the sources and approaches of
archaeology, history and material culture studies. It draws on
collections of human remains, material culture and documentary
evidence from Britain during the period 1700–1850, considering
the themes of gender, rank, age, disability and maternity. Each
chapter looks at the lived experiences of the material body,
bringing together disciplines that share an interest in the
material or embodied turn. Combining archaeological and historical
data to reconstruct embodied experiences, the volume represents the
first collection of genuinely collaborative scholarship by
historians and archaeologists. -- .
Writers have previously placed the action of kissing into
categories: kisses of love, affection, peace, respect and
friendship. Each of the essays in this fascinating book take a
single kind of kiss and uses it as an index to the past. For rather
than offering a simple history of the kiss, this book is about the
kiss in history. In this collection, an eminent group of cultural
historians have explored this subject using an exceptionally wide
range of evidence. They explore the kiss through sources as diverse
as canonical religious texts, popular prints, court depositions,
periodicals, diaries and poetry. In casting the net so wide, these
authors demonstrate how cultural history has been shaped by a broad
concept of culture, encompassing more than simply the canons of art
and literature, and integrating apparently 'historical' and
'non-historical' sources. Furthermore, this collections shows that
by analyzing the kiss and its position - embedded as it is as part
of our culture - history can use small gestures to take us to big
issues concerning ourselves and others, the past and the present.
With an afterword by Sir Keith Thomas, this book will be
fascinating reading for cultural historians working on a wide range
of different societies and periods. -- .
This collection explores the multifaceted relationship between
letters and bodies in the long eighteenth century, featuring a
broad selection of women and men’s letters in Britain, North
America and the Caribbean, from the labouring poor to the landed
elite. In eleven chapters, scholars from various disciplines draw
on different methodological approaches that include close readings
of single letters, social historical analyses of large corpora and
a material culture approach to the object of the letter. This
research includes personal letters exchanged among family and
friends, formal correspondence and letters that were incorporated
into published forewords and appendices, journals and memoirs.
Section 1 explores the letter as a substitute for the absent body,
the imagined physical encounters and performances envisaged by
letter writers and the means through which these imagined
sensations were conveyed. Section 2 examines the letter as a
material object that served as a conduit for descriptions of the
material body and as an instrument for embodied encounters. Section
3 focuses on how correspondents purposefully used their bodies in
letters as a means to create intimacy, to generate social networks
and build a ‘body politic’. This interdisciplinary volume
centred around letters will be of interest to scholars and students
in a variety of fields including eighteenth-century studies,
cultural history and literature.
Sources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written
word has traditionally been seen as the principal source,
historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text. In this
new edition of History and Material Culture, contributors consider
a range of objects - from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a
twenty-first-century shopping trolley - which can help historians
develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past.
Containing two new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and
the shopping trolley in the social world, this book examines a
variety of material sources from around the globe and across
centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study the
distant and the recent past. In a revised introduction, Karen
Harvey discusses some of the principal issues raised when
historians use material culture, particularly in the context of
'the material turn', and suggests some initial steps for those
unfamiliar with these kinds of sources. While the sources are
discussed from interdisciplinary perspectives, the emphasis of the
book is on what historians stand to gain from using material
culture, as well as what historians have to offer the broader study
of material culture. Clearly written and accessible, this book is
the ideal introduction to the opportunities and challenges of
researching material culture, and is essential reading for all
students of historical theory and method.
Sources are the raw material of History, but whereas the written
word has traditionally been seen as the principal source,
historians now recognize the value of sources beyond text. In this
new edition of History and Material Culture, contributors consider
a range of objects - from an eighteenth-century bed curtain to a
twenty-first-century shopping trolley - which can help historians
develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past.
Containing two new chapters on healing objects in East Africa and
the shopping trolley in the social world, this book examines a
variety of material sources from around the globe and across
centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study the
distant and the recent past. In a revised introduction, Karen
Harvey discusses some of the principal issues raised when
historians use material culture, particularly in the context of
'the material turn', and suggests some initial steps for those
unfamiliar with these kinds of sources. While the sources are
discussed from interdisciplinary perspectives, the emphasis of the
book is on what historians stand to gain from using material
culture, as well as what historians have to offer the broader study
of material culture. Clearly written and accessible, this book is
the ideal introduction to the opportunities and challenges of
researching material culture, and is essential reading for all
students of historical theory and method.
Oldest Ghosts tells of unexplained exploits by the spirits dwelling
in St. Augustine, the oldest city of European origin in the United
States.
- Judge John Stickney watches from a tree limb above his cemetery
monument
- A Colonial-period ghost hangs laundry in a Spanish
courtyard
- The ghost of Wll Green, who died in 1802, routinely enters the
bodies of men drinking in a bar Some residents and visitors
tolerate the playful spirits. Others prefer not to acknowledge
them. Either way, the ghosts abide.
In October 1726, newspapers began reporting a remarkable event. In
the town of Godalming in Surrey, a woman called Mary Toft had
started to give birth to rabbits. Several leading doctors - some
sent directly by King George I - travelled to examine the woman and
she was moved to London to be closer to them. By December, she had
been accused of fraud and taken into custody. Mary Toft's unusual
deliveries caused a media sensation. Her rabbit births were a test
case for doctors trying to further their knowledge about the
processes of reproduction and pregnancy. The rabbit births prompted
not just public curiosity and scientific investigation, but also a
vicious backlash. Based on extensive new archival research, this
book is the first in-depth re-telling of this extraordinary story.
Karen Harvey situates the rabbit-births within the troubled
community of Godalming and the women who remained close to Mary
Toft as the case unfolded, exploring the motivations of the medics
who examined her, considering why the case attracted the attention
of the King and powerful men in government, and following the case
through the criminal justice system. The case of Mary Toft exposes
huge social and cultural changes in English history. Against the
backdrop of an incendiary political culture, it was a time when
traditional social hierarchies were shaken, relationships between
men and women were redrawn, print culture acquired a new vibrancy
and irreverence, and knowledge of the body was remade. But Mary
Toft's story is not just a story about the past. In reconstructing
Mary's physical, social and mental world, The Imposteress Rabbit
Breeder allows us to reflect critically on our own ideas about
pregnancy, reproduction, and the body through the lens of the past.
This book will give you a clear insight into the mind of a
Rottweiler and ultimately tell you how it is possible to raise a
balanced and sociable animal from puppyhood.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. The relationship between men and
the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has been obscured by two
well-established historiographical narratives. The first charts
changes in domestic patriarchy, founded on political patriarchalism
in the early modern period and transformed during the eighteenth
century by new types of family relationship rooted in contract
theory. The second describes the emergence of a new kind of
domestic interior during the long eighteenth century, a 'home'
infused with a new culture of 'domesticity' primarily associated
with women and femininity. The Little Republic shifts the terms of
these debates, rescuing the engagement of men with the house from
obscurity, and better equipping historians to understand
masculinity, the domestic environment, and domestic patriarchy.
Karen Harvey explores how men represented and legitimized their
domestic activities. She considers the relationship between
discourses of masculinity and domesticity, and whether there was a
particularly manly attitude to the domestic. In doing so, Harvey
suggests that 'home' is too narrow a concept for an understanding
of eighteenth-century domestic experience. Instead, focusing on the
'house' foregrounds a different domestic culture, one in which men
and masculinity were central. Reconstructing men's experiences of
the domestic as shaped by their own and others' beliefs,
assumptions and expectations, Harvey argues for the continuation of
a model of domestic patriarchy and also that effective domestic
patriarchs remained important to late-eighteenth-century political
theory. It was a discourse of 'oeconomy' - the practice of managing
the economic and moral resources of the household for the
maintenance of good order - that shaped men's attitudes towards and
experiences in the house. Oeconomy combined day-to-day and global
management of people and resources; it was a meaningful way of
defining masculinity and established the house a key component of a
manly identity that operated across the divide of 'inside' and
'outside' the house. Significantly for histories of the home which
so often narrate a process of privatization and feminization,
oeconomy brought together the home and the world, primarily through
men's domestic management.
Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and
gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts
and their illustrations, and rooting this evidence firmly in
historical context, Harvey provides a thoroughgoing critique of the
orthodoxy of work on sexual difference in the history of the body.
She argues that eighteenth-century English erotic culture combined
a distinctive mode of writing and reading in which the form of
refinement was applied to the matter of sex. Erotic culture was
male-centred and it was in this environment, Harvey argues, that
men could enjoy both the bawdy, raucous, libidinous elements of the
eighteenth century and the refined politeness for which the period
is also renowned. This book makes a significant contribution to the
history of masculinity and advocates an approach to change in
gender history, one capable of capturing the processes of
negotiation and contestation integral to cultural change.
Karen Harvey explores the construction of sexual difference and
gender identity in eighteenth-century England. Using erotic texts
and their illustrations, and rooting this evidence firmly in
historical context, Harvey provides a thoroughgoing critique of the
orthodoxy of recent work on sexual difference in the history of the
body. She argues that eighteenth-century English erotic culture
combined a distinctive mode of writing and reading in which the
form of refinement was applied to the matter of sex. Erotic culture
was male-centred and it was in this environment, Harvey argues,
that men could enjoy both the bawdy, raucous, libidinous elements
of the eighteenth century with the refined politeness for which the
period is also renowned. This book makes a significant contribution
to the history of masculinity and advocates a new approach to
change in gender history, one capable of capturing the processes of
negotiation and contestation integral to cultural change.
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