Titlebook: An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts; Landscapes of Profit Quentin Lewis Book 2016 Springer International Publishing Switze

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02186-5from the street. In this, they were enacting contradictory principles of improvement that simultaneously advocated increased work and productivity and sought to make the evidence of that productivity invisible.

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Die praktische Anwendung der Malzextrakte,gy and fields beyond. I locate this lack of dynamic analysis as a function of an easy ideological dialectic of urban progress and rural backwardness that has characterized social thought since the nineteenth century. As an alternative, I offer up an archaeology of Improvement, a global rural moderni

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Schlussbetrachtung und Ausblickand is a place cut off from global processes and argues instead for a historically situated “stratigraphy” of New England landscapes, which were always connected to broader social processes. The earliest landscape is the Algonkian homeland, in which Native people of the northeast utilized a variety

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-08202-6 Valley at this time and show how it was articulated within broader social and economic relationships. Additionally, I explore the development of agricultural science through societies and publications and I highlight the transition from Improvement as an elite, specialized, and experimental activit

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Schlussbetrachtung und Ausblickovement literature. I treat Massachusetts Improvement literature as a kind of symbolic landscape, to explore the subjects and social relations that manifest on it. The goal is to understand how Massachusetts Improvers saw the landscape they wanted to create, and the people they wanted on it, while i

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02186-5eturn to the E.H. and Anna Williams’ house in Deerfield, MA, described in the prologue to locate the Williamses in the time, place, and social reality of early nineteenth century New England. I situate the Williamses in relation to the political–economic structure of the Connecticut River Valley and

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-02186-5 the perspective of Improvement. However, an examination of the Improvement literature on yards reveals them to be key sites of social and material production, in the eyes of Massachusetts early nineteenth century agriculturalists. I survey the literature on yard organization in New England, paying

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Annette Doll,Alexander P. Hansenhaeologically: manuring. After discussing the presence of a cobble platform found in the barnyard of the Williams’ house, I will show how this manure organizing . relates to the changing political economy and ecology of early nineteenth century New England. This stercorary was part of a suite of man