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Poverty in Depth: New International Perspectives

Giles

Jones

2011

Int J Histor Archaeol

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This volume on the archaeology of urban poverty arises from a three-day symposium hosted by York Archaeological Trust and the University of York in July 2009 to establish the wider intellectual framework for the investigation of the nineteenth-and twentieth-century archaeology of the Hungate neighborhood of York. In this opening article, the trajectory of medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Britain is contrasted with historical archaeology in the United States and Australia, and the influence of the pre-modern history of the Hungate neighborhood on its development since 1800 is explored.

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Poverty in Depth: New International Perspectives

Giles

Jones

2011

Int J Histor Archaeol

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Matter Out of Time: The Paradox of the “Contemporary Past”

Voss

2010

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________________________________________________________________Contemporary archaeology, with its focus on the present and the very recent past, challenges the conventional definitions of archaeology that emphasize the temporal distance between the archaeologist and the subject matter being investigated. Contemporary archaeology requires different methods, forges novel interdisciplinary collaborations, and inspires new questions. In particular, contemporary archaeology reminds us that all social actors, both in the present and in the past, were uncertain of the future and could not know the outcomes of their actions. ________________________________________________________________ Résumé: L'archéologie contemporaine, en se concentrant sur le présent et le passé récent, remet en question les définitions traditionnelles de l'archéologie pour souligner la distance temporelle entre l'archéologue et le sujet des recherches. L'archéologie contemporaine nécessite des méthodes différentes, elle élabore des collaborations nouvelles interdisciplinaires et pose de nouvelles questions. En particulier, elle nous rappelle que l'ensemble des acteurs sociaux, à la fois du présent et du passé, sont incertains du futur et qu'ils ne connaissent pas les résultats de leurs actions.________________________________________________________________

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Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America

Hodge

2014

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This interdisciplinary study presents compelling evidence for a revolutionary idea: that to understand the historical entrenchment of gentility in America, we must understand its creation among non-elite people: colonial middling sorts who laid the groundwork for the later American middle class. Focusing on the daily life of Widow Elizabeth Pratt, a shopkeeper from early eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, Christina J. Hodge uses material remains as a means of reconstructing not only how Mrs Pratt lived, but also how these objects reflect shifting class and gender relationships in this period. Challenging the 'emulation thesis', a common assumption that wealthy elites led fashion and culture change while middling sorts only followed, Hodge shows how middling consumers were in fact discerning cultural leaders, adopting genteel material practices early and aggressively. By focusing on the rise and emergence of the middle class, this book brings new insights into the evolution of consumerism, class, and identity in colonial America.

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Poverty in Depth: New International Perspectives

Poverty in Depth: New International Perspectives

Matter Out of Time: The Paradox of the “Contemporary Past”

Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America

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