期刊全称 | An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts | 期刊简称 | Landscapes of Profit | 影响因子2023 | Quentin Lewis | 视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/155/154858/154858.mp4 | 发行地址 | Discusses the improvement of rural agricultural landscapes in New England in the early 19th century.Focuses on the role of Improvement as a cultural logic operating to manage and structure rural life. | 学科分类 | Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .This book probes the materiality of Improvement in early 19.th. century rural Massachusetts. Improvement was a metaphor for human intervention in the dramatic changes taking place to the English speaking world in the 18.th. and 19.th. centuries as part of a transition to industrial capitalism. The meaning of Improvement vacillated between ideas of economic profit and human betterment, but in practice, Improvement relied on a broad assemblage of material things and spaces for coherence and enaction. .Utilizing archaeological data from the home of a wealthy farmer in rural Western Massachusetts, as well as an analysis of early Republican agricultural publications, this book shows how Improvement’s twin meanings of profit and betterment unfolded unevenly across early 19.th. century New England. The Improvement movement in Massachusetts emerged at a time of great social instability, and served to ameliorate growing tensions between urban and rural socioeconomic life through a rationalization of space. Alongside this rationalization, Improvement also served to reshape rural landscapes in keeping with the social and economic processes of a modernizing global capitalism. But the contrad | Pindex | Book 2016 |
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