The Archaeology of Improvement in Britain, 1750–1850Cambridge University Press, 30.04.2007 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. |
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aesthetic Agricultural Revolution animals architecture areas bleaching Britain British buildings capitalism ceramics clean communal considered construction contemporary context crofts crops crown glass domestic drainage drains early modern early nineteenth century economic eenth eighteenth and nineteenth eighteenth century enclosure England Enlightenment environment ethic of Improvement evidence example farmers fields gardens Highland Highland Clearances historians historical archaeology household houses human idea ideological increase individual industrial industrial archaeology institutions labour Lanark land landowners late eighteenth century later historical archaeology Leamington material culture Mechanics medieval ment mid nineteenth century middle classes moral nineteenth century organisation parish particular paupers period philosophical pipes pits political Poor Law population post-medieval Post-Medieval Archaeology practice prison production progress reform relationships rubbish Scotland Scottish Scottish Enlightenment segregation social society space streets style tenants town traditional transfer-printed urban values wares waste window glass workhouse working-class yard
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - Those who compare the age on which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in then: imagination may talk of degeneracy and decay : but no man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
Seite 1 - Yet, unless I greatly deceive myself, the general effect of this ' chequered narrative will be to Excite thankfulness in all religious minds, and hope in the breasts of all patriots...