Trist Families of Devon

Trist Families of Devon
Author: Peter Trist
Publisher: Peter Trist
Total Pages: 187
Release:
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0648499170

If your ancestors were Devon farmers and country dwellers this volume is of great relevance and interest because it examines the daily life of villagers using the statistical data accumulated by social historians. It answers some of the questions we would have asked our ancestors if we could travel back in time to their era. Questions are discussed regarding • marriage partners • life span • bereavement • re-marriage • size of families • mobility • men’s & women’s work • standards of living and many more everyday issues.

Consumption and the World of Goods

Consumption and the World of Goods
Author: John Brewer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 651
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 1136157603

The study of past society in terms of what it consumes rather than what it produces is - relatively speaking - a new development. The focus on consumption changes the whole emphasis and structure of historical enquiry. While human beings usually work within a single trade or industry as producers, as, say, farmers or industrial workers, as consumers they are active in many different markets or networks. And while history written from a production viewpoint has, by chance or design, largely been centred on the work of men, consumption history helps to restore women o the mainstream. The history of consumption demands a wide range of skills. It calls upon the methods and techniques of many other disciplines, including archaeology, sociology, social and economic history, anthropology and art criticism. But it is not simply a melting-pot of techniques and skills, brought to bear on a past epoch. Its objectives amount to a new description of a past culture in its totality, as perceived through its patterns of consumption in goods and services. Consumption and the World of Goods is the first of three volumes to examine history from this perspective, and is a unique collaboration between twenty-six leading subject specialists from Europe and North America. The outcome is a new interpretation of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, one that shapes a new historical landscape based on the consumption of goods and services.

Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation

Horses, Oxen and Technological Innovation
Author: John Langdon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2002-07-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521525084

An account of the introduction of the horse as a replacement for oxen in English farming.

The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850

The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850
Author: Sara Pennell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1441191860

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.

The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred

The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred
Author: Ivor Noël Hume
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2016-07-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1512819719

The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred explores the history and artifacts of a 20,000-acre tract of land in Tidewater, Virginia, one of the most extensive English enterprises in the New World. Settled in 1618, all signs of its early occupation soon disappeared, leaving no trace above ground. More than three centuries later, archaeological explorations uncovered tantalizing evidence of the people who had lived, worked, and died there in the seventeenth century. Part I: Interpretive Studies addresses four critical questions, each with complex and sometimes unsatisfactory answers: Who was Martin? What was a hundred? When did it begin and end? Where was it located? We then see how scientific detective work resulted in a reconstruction of what daily life must have been like in the strange and dangerous new land of colonial Virginia. The authors use first-person accounts, documents of all sorts, and the treasure trove of artifacts carefully unearthed from the soil of Martin's Hundred. Part II: Artifact Catalog illustrates and describes the principal artifacts in 110 figures. The objects, divided by category and by site, range from ceramics, which were the most readily and reliably datable, to glass, of which there was little, to metalwork, in all its varied aspects from arms and armor to rail splitters' wedges, and, finally, to tobacco pipes. The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred is a fascinating account of the ways archaeological fieldwork, laboratory examination, and analysis based on lifelong study of documentary and artifact research came together to increase our knowledge of early colonial history. Copublished with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

English Rural Society, 1500-1800

English Rural Society, 1500-1800
Author: John Chartres
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2006-11-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521031561

Written largely by her former research students, this book honours the varied and creative career of Joan Thirsk.