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

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1574-0439 cultural logic operating to manage and structure rural life..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. cent

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Book 2016 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

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Studieren an privaten Hochschulen, In this way, Improvement, as a cultural logic, both succeeded and failed. Finally, I argue that Improvement’s failure to maintain the rural New England economy suggests that studies of capitalism need to come to terms with the relationship between the countryside and the city, in material fact and ideology.

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