Interpreting the Early Modern World (eBook)

Preface 6
Contents 8
Contributors 10
Introduction: Transatlantic Dialogues and Convergences 12
References 21
Part I Country Estates/Landscapes 24
1 An American Landscape Conversation 25
Introduction 25
An Interpretive Pathway to Delawares Chateau Country 27
Encounters in the Contemporary Delaware Landscape 29
Databases and Interpretive Landscape Archaeology 31
From Landscape of Poverty and Depression to Dynastic Myth of Past, Present, and Future 33
Of Dynasties 34
Beyond Master Narrative 37
Conclusions: In Search of Landscapes within Landscapes 40
On Marriage and Death 40
On Cows and Butter and Pots and Pans 41
On Family and Home 41
On Acquisition and Transformation 43
On the Future 43
References 44
2 Estate Landscapes in England: Interpretive Archaeologies 46
Introduction 46
The Character of Landed Estates in England 47
Phases of Development 48
The Language of Landscape 53
Holkham and Monticello: Style and Meaning in England and America 59
Conclusion: Interpretation and Experience 60
References 61
Part II Archaeology of NineteenthCentury Cities and the Lives of Working People 64
3 Beyond Stories: A Quantitative Approach to the Archaeology of Households, Neighborhoods, and Cities 65
Prologue 65
A New Approach 67
Scale in Urban Historical Archaeology 69
Quantitative Analyses of Households, Neighborhoods, and Cities 71
The Potential of Neighborhood Archaeology 76
Rethinking Redundancy and Facing the Unknown 78
References 80
4 Stooping to Pick Up Stones: A ReflectionINTnl on Urban Archaeology
Down at the Dig 82
In a Back Street 84
The Trouble with Material Culture 86
Adrian and Mary, and Winchester, Too 87
On the Road: West Oakland and Sheffield 93
Framing the Questions 94
Bacon and Eggs 95
Concluding Thoughts 97
References 101
Part III Contesting Race, Constructing Memory 104
5 Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland 105
The First African to Vote in an American Legislature 107
Africans in Early Maryland 110
The Strange Career of Burial 18 114
Conclusion 124
References 126
6 ``Sorting Stones'': Monuments, Memory and ResistanceINTnl in the Scottish Highlands
The Practice of Social Memory: An Interpretive Approach 135
Topographies of Loss and Displacement: Negotiating Relationships Between People and Land 138
Thrown Like Chaff in the Wind: Excavation as a Site for the Production and Negotiation of Memory 144
Conclusions: Interpreting and Contesting History 152
References 155
Part IV Gender, Embodiment, Life Course, Materiality, and Identity 158
7 Stitching Women's Lives: Interpreting the ArtifactsINTnl of Sewing and Needlework
Materiality, Microhistory, and Historical Archaeology 161
Artifacts, Situations, Contexts 163
Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Material Culture 164
Not Just a Thimble 167
When Sewing Implements Become Personal Effects 167
Closing Thoughts 170
References 171
8 The Intimacy of Death: Interpreting Gender and the Life Course in Medieval and Early Modern Burials 175
Gender and Material Culture: A Trans-Atlantic Discord 175
Embodiment and the Life Course: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues 177
Burial Archaeology: From Medieval to Early Modern 178
A Mothers Grief: The Intimacy of Death 183
The Thread of Life 185
References 187
Part V Industrial Housing/Landscapes 190
9 Mrs. Perrin's ``Tranklements'': Community Life and Class Distinction in (Post)Industrial-Era Cheshire 191
Introduction 191
The Materiality of Community Life 191
The Alderley Sandhills Project 193
The Debris of Daily Life 196
That's Just a Family Thing, You Know 200
A Life Recorded 204
Conclusion 206
References 207
10 Attitudes to Religion, Education, and Status in Worker Settlements: The Architectural and Archaeological Evidence from Wales 210
Welsh Worker Settlements 210
Early Industrial Settlements in Wales 213
Swansea, Blaenavon, and Amlwch 213
Workers' Housing and Settlements in Swansea, Blaenavon, and Amlwch 214
Swansea 214
Swansea Settlements 214
Blaenavon and Swansea Settlements 215
Blaenavon 216
Amlwch 221
The Use of Common Land at Swansea and Blaenavon 221
Works Schools Provision at Blaenavon, Swansea, and Amlwch 225
Contrasting Capitalists and Workers Houses 227
Houses 228
Religious Buildings 229
The Worker Chapels 230
The Worker Churches and Chapels Provided by Industrialists 230
The Industrialist Churches and Chapels 230
The Schools 235
Conclusions 236
References 238
Part VI Commentary 239
11 Revelations: Comments on InterpretingINTnl the Early Modern World
References 244
Subject Index 245