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An archaeology of improvement in rural Massachusetts = landscapes of profit and betterment at the dawn of the 19th century /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An archaeology of improvement in rural Massachusetts/ by Quentin Lewis.
Reminder of title:	landscapes of profit and betterment at the dawn of the 19th century /
Author:	Lewis, Quentin.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2016.,
Description:	xiii, 236 p. :ill., digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Rural development - 19th century. - Massachusetts -
Subject:	Massachusetts - Juvenile fiction. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22105-2
ISBN:	9783319221052

An archaeology of improvement in rural Massachusetts = landscapes of profit and betterment at the dawn of the 19th century /
Lewis, Quentin.

An archaeology of improvement in rural Massachusettslandscapes of profit and betterment at the dawn of the 19th century /[electronic resource] :by Quentin Lewis. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2016. - xiii, 236 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Contributions to global historical archaeology,1574-0439. - Contributions to global historical archaeology..

Preface -- Part 1: Improvement as archaeological subject -- Chapter 1: Rural Life and Historical Archaeology -- Chapter 2: Improvement, Capitalism, and Landscape Change -- Part 2: Improving New England at the dawn of the 19th century -- Chapter 3: Rural New England in Time and Place -- Chapter 4: Improvement and Agriculture in Massachusetts at the dawn of the 19th century -- Chapter 5: Excavating the Yeoman: Materializing the idealized people and landscapes of Improvement literature -- Chapter 6: The E.H. Williams House -- Chapter 7: The Logic of Improvement in the Williams Yard -- Chapter 8: Manuring and the political economy of Improvement -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- Appendix: The archaeology of the EH Williams House.

This book probes the materiality of Improvement in early 19th century rural Massachusetts. Improvement was a metaphor for human intervention in the dramatic changes taking place to the English speaking world in the 18th and 19th 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 19th 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 contradictions inherent in such processes spurred and buttressed wealth inequality, ecological distress, and social dislocation.

ISBN: 9783319221052

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-22105-2doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1103540
Rural development
--Massachusetts--19th century.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

659000
Massachusetts
--Juvenile fiction.

LC Class. No.: HN49.C6

Dewey Class. No.: 307.1412

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