The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology
The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology

Author: Eleanor Casella

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 769

ISBN-13: 0192596535

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Representing the first substantial English-language text on Industrial Archaeology in a decade, this handbook comes at a time when the global impact of industrialization is being re-assessed in terms of its legacy of climate change, mechanization, urbanization, the forced migration of peoples, and labour relations. Critical debates around the beginning of a new geological era - The Anthropocene - have emerged over the last decade. This approach interrogates the widespread exploitation of natural resources that forged industrialization from its early emergence in 18th century northern Europe to its contemporary ubiquity, environmental impacts, and social legacy within our globalized world. Through a broad international and multi-period set of chapters, this volume explores the complex origins, processes, and development of industrialization through both its physical remains and human consequences - both the good and the bad. It provides a diverse material framework for understanding our modern world, from its industrial origins through its future paths in the 21st century.

Encyclopedia of Cremation
Encyclopedia of Cremation

Author: Lewis H. Mates

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 517

ISBN-13: 1317143833

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The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.

Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 4
Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain, Part II vol 4

Author: Michelle Allen-Emerson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-12-17

Total Pages: 1280

ISBN-13: 1000561372

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Sanitary reform was one of the great debates of the nineteenth century. This reset edition makes available a modern, edited collection of rare documents specifically addressing sanitary reform. Each volume will begin with an introduction, and the documents presented have headnotes and endnotes provided. A full index appears in the final volume.

Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden
Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden

Author: Mrs. C. W. Earle

Publisher: Read Books Ltd

Published: 2020-07-14

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1528761588

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“Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden” is a classic guide to gardening, dealing with a range of subjects interspersed with reflections and observations from an expert gardener. Divided into seasons, it aims to provide the readers with details and instructions on exactly what they should do and consider at different times of the year, with repeated reference to traditional English gardens and gardening. This wonderful handbook is highly recommended for green-fingered enthusiasts and is not to be missed by collectors of vintage gardening literature. Contents include: “January”, “Introductory”, “Indispensable Books”, “An Old Hertfordshire Garden”, “Reminiscences”, “My Present Garden Plants in a London Room”, “Japanese Floral Arrangement”, “Cooking Vegetables and Fruit”, “Making Coffee”, “Early Blossoms”, “Winter Gardening”, “Frost Pictures on Window Panes”, “February”, “Forced Bulbs”, “The Exhibitions of the Royal Horticultural Society”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of gardening.

Gravetye Manor
Gravetye Manor

Author: William Robinson

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2024-10-01

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 084783767X

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A spectacular, oversized facsimile edition of a famous text by best-loved garden writer William Robinson with new color photos and a foreword by its current renowned gardener, Tom Coward, which bring this historic estate and garden to new life. Gravetye Manor is considered, along with nearby Sissinghurst and Great Dixter, one of England’s most famous and exquisite estate gardens. Robinson purchased the Elizabethan-era property in 1885; working for decades to create its renowned gardens. More recently, it has been turned into a luxury destination hotel complete with a Michelin-star restaurant, and renowned British gardener Coward has been working for fourteen years to restore the gardens faithfully to Robinson’s original vision. Pithy and prolific Robinson is widely acknowledged to have been one of the greatest gardeners of all time, known as “the Irishman who taught the British how to garden,” and the pioneer of the naturalistic planting style still emulated today by garden designers including Piet Oudolf and many others. With mentions of specific plants, cultivars, and planting schemes as well as observations of seasonal changes and moods, home gardeners today will relate to Robinson’s charming and entertaining original text and see their own smaller-scale efforts reflected in his own gardening triumphs, failures, and experiments. New color photographs of the current estate gardens show how diligently efforts are being made to restore the house and garden to Robinson’s original vision—to spectacular result.