Gender Taste And Material Culture In Britain And North America 17001830 Edited By John Styles And Amanda Vickery
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Author |
: John Styles |
Publisher |
: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105122855310 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 by : John Styles
Between 1700 and 1830, men and women in the English-speaking territories framing the Atlantic gained unprecedented access to material things. The British Atlantic was an empire of goods, held together not just by political authority and a common language, but by a shared material culture nourished by constant flows of commodities. Diets expanded to include exotic luxuries such as tea and sugar, the fruits of mercantile and colonial expansion. Homes were furnished with novel goods, like clocks and earthenware teapots, the products of British industrial ingenuity. This groundbreaking book compares these developments in Britain and North America, bringing together a multi-disciplinary group of scholars to consider basic questions about women, men, and objects in these regions. In asking who did the shopping, how things were used, and why they became the subject of political dispute, the essays show the profound significance of everyday objects in the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.
Author |
: richard sheldon |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1376640781 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 17001830 Edited By John Styles and Amanda Vickery by : richard sheldon
Author |
: Jane Hamlett |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2019-10-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781137340665 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1137340665 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600 by : Jane Hamlett
What does material culture tell us about gendered identities and how does gender reveal the meaning of spaces and things? If we look at the objects that we own, covet and which surround us in our everyday culture, there is a clear connection between ideas about gender and the material world. This book explores the material culture of the past to shed light on historical experiences and identities. Some essays focus on specific objects, such as an eighteenth-century jug or a 20th powder puff, others on broader material environments, such as the sixteenth-century guild or the interior of a 20th century pub, while still others focus on the paraphernalia associated with certain actions, such as letter-writing or maintaining 18th century men's hair. Written by scholars in a range of history-related disciplines, the essays in this book offer exposés of current research methods and interests. These demonstrate to students how a relationship between material culture and gender is being addressed, while also revealing a variety of intellectual approaches and topics.
Author |
: Karen Harvey |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 2013-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135690953 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135690952 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis History and Material Culture by : Karen Harvey
Sources are the raw material of history, but where the written word has traditionally been seen as the principal source, today historians are increasingly recognizing the value of sources beyond text. In History and Material Culture, Karen Harvey embarks upon a discussion about material culture – considering objects, often those found surrounding us in day to day life, as sources, which can help historians develop new interpretations and new knowledge about the past. Across ten chapters, different historians look at a variety of material sources from around the globe and across centuries to assess how such sources can be used to study history. While the sources are discussed from ‘interdisciplinary’ perspectives, each contributor examines how material culture can be approached from an historical viewpoint, and each chapter addresses its theme or approach in a way accessible to readers without expertise in the area. In her introduction, Karen Harvey discusses some of the key issues raised when historians use material culture, and suggests some basic steps for those new to these kinds of sources. Opening up the discipline of history to new approaches, and introducing those working in other disciplines to historical approaches, this book is the ideal introduction to the opportunities and challenges of researching material culture.
Author |
: Sara Pennell |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2016-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441191861 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441191860 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 by : Sara Pennell
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.
Author |
: Douglas McCalla |
Publisher |
: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2015-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780773597105 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0773597107 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Consumers in the Bush by : Douglas McCalla
General stores are essential to the image of a colonial village. Many historians, however, still base their stories of settlement on the notion of rural self-sufficiency, begging the question: if general stores were so common, who were their customers? To answer this, Consumers in the Bush draws on the account books of country stores, rich evidence that has rarely been used. Douglas McCalla considers more than 30,000 transactions on the accounts of 750 families at seven Upper Canadian stores between 1808 and 1861. These customers were typical of rural society - farmers, artisans, labourers, and often women. At village stores they found a wide variety of products, most imported from Britain, a few from the United States, and a surprising number that were produced locally. Three chapters focus on the major product categories of dry goods, groceries, and hardware; a fourth considers local products, and a fifth addresses a variety of items - from household goods to footwear to school books. In telling us about the goods colonists bought, this book explores what they were used for and the stories they allow us to tell about rural lives and experience. By seeing rural Upper Canadians as consumers, Consumers in the Bush reveals them as full participants in the rapidly changing nineteenth-century global world of goods.
Author |
: Peter Gurney |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2017-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441148308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441148302 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Making of Consumer Culture in Modern Britain by : Peter Gurney
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE AWARD WINNER 2018 It is commonly accepted that the consumer is now centre stage in modern Britain, rather than the worker or producer. Consumer choice is widely regarded as the major source of self-definition and identity rather than productive activity. Politicians vie with each other to fashion their appeal to 'citizen-consumers'. When and how did these profound changes occur? Which historical alternatives were pushed to the margins in the process? In what ways did the everyday consumer practices and forms of consumer organising adopted by both middle and working-class men and women shape the outcomes? This study of the making of consumer culture in Britain since 1800 explores these questions, introduces students to major debates and cuts a distinctive path through this vibrant field. It suggests that the consumer culture that emerged during this period was shaped as much by political relationships as it was by economic and social factors.
Author |
: Cynthia Aalders |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 292 |
Release |
: 2024-05-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780198872306 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0198872305 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women by : Cynthia Aalders
The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women explores the vital and unexplored ways in which women's life writings acted to undergird, guide, and indeed shape religious communities. Through an exploration of various significant but understudied personal relationships- including mentorship by older women, spiritual friendship, and care for nonbiological children-the book demonstrates the multiple ways in which women were active in writing religious communities. The women discussed here belonged to communities that habitually communicated through personal writing. At the same time, their acts of writing were creative acts, powerful to build and shape religious communities: these women wrote religious community. The book consists of a series of interweaving case studies and focuses on Catherine Talbot (1721-70), Anne Steele (1717-78), and Ann Bolton (1743-1822), and on their literary interactions with friends and family. Considered together, these subjects and sources allow comparison across denomination, for Talbot was Anglican, Steele a Baptist, and Bolton a Methodist. Further, it considers women's life writings as spiritual legacy, as manuscripts were preserved by female friends and family members and continued to function in religious communities after the death of their authors. Various strands of enquiry weave through the book: questions of gender and religion, themselves inflected by denomination; themes related to life writings and manuscript cultures; and the interplay between the writer as individual and her relationships and communal affiliations. The result is a variegated and highly textured account of eighteenth-century women's spiritual and writing lives.
Author |
: Daniel Maudlin |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2016-03-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317024392 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317024397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Materials of Exchange between Britain and North East America, 1750-1900 by : Daniel Maudlin
Taking a multidisciplinary approach to the complex cultural exchanges that took place between Britain and America from 1750 to 1900, The Materials of Exchange examines material, visual, and print culture alongside literature within a transatlantic context. The contributors trace the evolution of Anglo-American culture from its origins as a product of the British North Atlantic Empire through to its persistence in the post-Independence world of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While transatlanticism is a well-established field in history and literary studies, this volume recognizes the wider diversity and interactions of transatlantic cultural production across material and visual cultures as well as literature. As such, while encompassing a range of fields and approaches within the humanities, the ten chapters are all concerned with understanding and interpreting the same Anglo-American culture within the same social contexts. The chapters integrate the literary with the material, offering alternative and provocative perspectives on topics ranging from the child-made book to representations of domestic slaves in literature, by way of history painting, travel writing, architecture and political plays. By focusing on cultural exchanges between Britain and the north-eastern maritime United States over nearly two centuries, the collection offers an in-depth study of Britain’s relationship with a single region of North America over an extended historic period. Contributors have resisted the temptation to prioritize the relationship between New England and England in particular by placing this association within the contexts of Atlantic exchanges with other northeastern states as well as with the South, the Caribbean and Scotland. Intended for researchers in literature, visual and material culture, this collection challenges single-subject boundaries by redefining transatlantic studies as the collective examination of the complex and interrelated cultural t
Author |
: Stephen G. Hague |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2021-09-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000449389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000449386 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis At Home in the Eighteenth Century by : Stephen G. Hague
The eighteenth-century home, in terms of its structure, design, function, and furnishing, was a site of transformation – of spaces, identities, and practices. Home has myriad meanings, and although the eighteenth century in the common imagination is often associated with taking tea on polished mahogany tables, a far wider world of experience remains to be introduced. At Home in the Eighteenth Century brings together factual and fictive texts and spaces to explore aspects of the typical Georgian home that we think we know from Jane Austen novels and extant country houses while also engaging with uncharacteristic and underappreciated aspects of the home. At the core of the volume is the claim that exploring eighteenth-century domesticity from a range of disciplinary vantage points can yield original and interesting questions, as well as reveal new answers. Contributions from the fields of literature, history, archaeology, art history, heritage studies, and material culture brings the home more sharply into focus. In this way At Home in the Eighteenth Century reveals a more nuanced and fluid concept of the eighteenth-century home and becomes a steppingstone to greater understanding of domestic space for undergraduate level and beyond.