The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750–1850
The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750–1850

Author: Sarah Tarlow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-04-30

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1139462741

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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.

Archaeology of Improvement in Britain 1750-1850, The. Cambridge Studies in Archaeology.
Archaeology of Improvement in Britain 1750-1850, The. Cambridge Studies in Archaeology.

Author: Professor of Historical Archaeology Sarah Tarlow

Publisher:

Published: 2014-05-14

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780511296413

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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.

The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750-1850
The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750-1850

Author: Sarah Tarlow

Publisher:

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781107169340

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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.

The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century
The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Alasdair Mark Brooks

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0803285310

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Britain was the industrial and political powerhouse of the nineteenth century--the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the center of the largest empire of the time. With its broad imperial reach--and even broader indirect influence--Britain had a major impact on nineteenth-century material culture worldwide. Because British manufactured goods were widespread in British colonies and beyond, a more nuanced understanding of those goods can enhance the archaeological study of the people who used them far beyond Britain's shores. However, until recently archaeologists have given relatively little attention to such goods in Britain itself, thereby missing what is often revealing and useful contextual information for historical archaeologists working in countries where British goods were consumed while also leaving significant portions of Britain's own archaeological record poorly understood. The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century helps fill these gaps, through case studies demonstrating the importance and meaning of mass-produced material culture in Britain from the birth of the Industrial Revolution (mid-1700s) to early World War II. By examining many disparate items--such as ceramics made for export, various goods related to food culture, Scottish land documents, and artifacts of death--these studies enrich both an understanding of Britain itself and the many places it influenced during the height of its international power.

The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850
The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850

Author: Sara Pennell

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-06-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1441191860

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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.

An Archaeology of Land Ownership
An Archaeology of Land Ownership

Author: Maria Relaki

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-23

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1135050449

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Within archaeological studies, land tenure has been mainly studied from the viewpoint of ownership. A host of studies has argued about land ownership on the basis of the simple co-existence of artefacts on the landscape; other studies have tended to extrapolate land ownership from more indirect means. Particularly noteworthy is the tendency to portray land ownership as the driving force behind the emergence of social complexity, a primordial ingredient in the processes that led to the political and economic expansion of prehistoric societies. The association between people and land in all of these interpretive schemata is however less easy to detect analytically. Although various rubrics have been employed to identify such a connection – most notable among them the concepts of ‘cultures,’ ‘regions,’ or even ‘households’ – they take the links between land and people as a given and not as something that needs to be conceptually defined and empirically substantiated. An Archaeology of Land Ownership demonstrates that the relationship between people and land in the past is first and foremost an analytical issue, and one that calls for clarification not only at the level of definition, but also methodological applicability. Bringing together an international roster of specialists, the essays in this volume call attention to the processes by which links to land are established, the various forms that such links take and how they can change through time, as well as their importance in helping to forge or dilute an understanding of community at various circumstances.

The Poverty of Planning
The Poverty of Planning

Author: Benno Engels

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-01-15

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1498585450

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Using a neo-Marxian perspective, Benno Engels examines the absence of urban planning in nineteenth-century England. In his analysis of urbanization in England, Engels considers the influences of property owners, inheritance laws, local government structures, fiscal crises of the local and central state, shifts in voter sentiments, fluctuating economic conditions, and class-based pressure group activity.

Dialectics of Improvement
Dialectics of Improvement

Author: Gerard Lee McKeever

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2020-02-03

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1474441696

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This book develops new insight into the idea of progress as improvement, as the basis for an approach to literary Romanticism in the Scottish context.

Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain

Author: Jon Agar

Publisher: UCL Press

Published: 2018-04-09

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1911576577

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Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation – and self-organisation – that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.