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Book Synopsis The Roots of Rural Capitalism by : Christopher Clark
Download or read book The Roots of Rural Capitalism written by Christopher Clark and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the late colonial period and the Civil War, the countryside of the American northeast was largely transformed. Rural New England changed from a society of independent farmers relatively isolated from international markets into a capitalist economy closely linked to the national market, an economy in which much farming and manufacturing output was produced by wage labor. Using the Connecticut Valley as an example, The Roots of Rural Capitalism demonstrates how this important change came about. Christopher Clark joins the active debate on the "transition to capitalism" with a fresh interpretation that integrates the insights of previous studies with the results of his detailed research. Largely rejecting the assumption of recent scholars that economic change can be explained principally in terms of markets, he constructs a broader social history of the rural economy and traces the complex interactions of social structure, household strategies, gender relations, and cultural values that propelled the countryside from one economic system to another. Above all, he shows that people of rural Massachusetts were not passive victims of changes forced upon them, but actively created a new economic world as they tried to secure their livelihoods under changing demographic and economic circumstances. The emergence of rural capitalism, Clark maintains, was not the result of a single "transition"; rather, it was an accretion of new institutions and practices that occurred over two generations, and in two broad chronological phases. It is his singular contribution to demonstrate the coexistence of a family-based household economy (persisting well into the nineteenth century) and the market-oriented system of production and exchange that is generally held to have emerged full-blown by the eighteenth century. He is adept at describing the clash of values sustaining both economies, and the ways in which the rural household-based economy, through a process he calls "involution," ultimately gave way to a new order. His analysis of the distinctive role of rural women in this transition constitutes a strong new element in the study of gender as a factor in the economic, social, and cultural shifts of the period. Sophisticated in argument and engaging in presentation, this book will be recognized as a major contribution to the history of capitalism and society in nineteenth-century America.
Book Synopsis A History of Energy Flows by : Anthony N. Penna
Download or read book A History of Energy Flows written by Anthony N. Penna and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a global and historical perspective of energy flows during the last millennium. The search for sustainable energy is a key issue dominating today’s energy regime. This book details the historical evolution of energy, following the overlapping and slow flowing transitions from one regime to another. In doing so it seeks to provide insight into future energy transitions and the means of utilizing sustainable energy sources to reduce humanity’s fossil fuel footprint. The book begins with an examination of the earliest and most basic forms of energy use, namely, that of humans metabolizing food in order to work, with the first transition following the domestication and breeding of horses and other animals. The book also examines energy sources key to development during the industrialization and mechanization, such as wood and coal, as well as more recent sources, such as crude oil and nuclear energy. The book then assesses energy flows that are at the forefront of sustainability, by examining green sources, such as solar, wind power and hydropower. While it is easy to see energy flows in terms of “revolutions,” transitions have taken centuries to evolve, and transitions are never fully global, as, for example, wood remains the primary fuel source for cooking in much of the developing world. This book not only demonstrates the longevity of energy transitions but also discusses the possibility for reducing transition times when technological developments provide inexpensive and safe energy sources that can reduce the dependency on fossil fuels. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy transitions, sustainable energy and environmental and energy history.
Book Synopsis Master's Theses in the Arts and Social Sciences by :
Download or read book Master's Theses in the Arts and Social Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis by :
Download or read book Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transforming Rural Life by : Sally Ann McMurry
Download or read book Transforming Rural Life written by Sally Ann McMurry and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the many changes that transformed nineteenth-century agrarian life was the shift in the dairy industry from home to factory butter- and cheesemaking. In the early nineteenth century virtually all such work took place on the family farm. But after about 1860, production began to move from farms to local "crossroads factories." In Transforming Rural Life Sally McMurry takes a new look at the underlying causes of this development and its implications for the dairying families who were the mainstays of northeastern agriculture. Unlike previous books, which cast this transformation primarily in economic terms, McMurry's work emphasizes the role of social systems, cultural values, material culture, and family dynamics. She argues that a key factor in the change was simply the resistance of women to the burden of home cheesemaking (many households produced thousands of pounds every season). When the technology and economic conditions permitted, the transition to factory production took place quickly--not because farm families made more money, but because taking the milk to factories helped resolve domestic tensions. As a result, patterns of life began to change--freeing women for new tasks, encouraging increased reliance on the market economy and new cash crops, and emphasizing wage work, which in turn affected the reorganization of the domestic economy. Sally A. McMurry teaches history at the Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Families and Farmhouses in Nineteenth-Century America: Vernacular Design and Social Change.
Author :University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus). Department of Anthropology Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :782 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Research Reports by : University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus). Department of Anthropology
Download or read book Research Reports written by University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus). Department of Anthropology and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Resources of the City by : Bill Luckin
Download or read book Resources of the City written by Bill Luckin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of urban environmental history is a relatively new one, yet it is rapidly moving to the forefront of scholarly research and is the focus of much interdisciplinary work. Given the environmental problems facing the modern world it is perhaps unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, natural and social scientists should increasingly look at the environmental problems faced by previous generations, and how they were regarded and responded to. This volume reflects this growing concern, and reflects many of the key concerns and issues that are essential to our understanding of the problems faced by cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Addressing a variety of environmental issues, such as clean water supply, the provision/retention of green space, and noise pollution, that faced European and North American cities the essays in this volume highlight the common responses as well as the differences that characterised the reactions to these trans-national concerns.
Book Synopsis The History and Triumphs of the Nineteenth Century by : Charles Morris
Download or read book The History and Triumphs of the Nineteenth Century written by Charles Morris and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ecological Anthropology of the Middle Connecticut River Valley by : Robert Paynter
Download or read book Ecological Anthropology of the Middle Connecticut River Valley written by Robert Paynter and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agrindex written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Changing Energy Use Futures by : Rocco Fazzolare
Download or read book Changing Energy Use Futures written by Rocco Fazzolare and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Archaeological Excavations at the Uxbridge Almshouse Burial Ground in Uxbridge, Massachusetts by : Ricardo J. Elia
Download or read book Archaeological Excavations at the Uxbridge Almshouse Burial Ground in Uxbridge, Massachusetts written by Ricardo J. Elia and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive report on rescue excavation of 32 individuals who died at the Uxbridge Almshouse between 1831 and 1872 and were buried in its cemetery. It must be coincidence that 19th century coffin lid hinges look like 1st century Roman armour fittings!
Download or read book Faith in Nature written by Thomas Dunlap and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The human impulse to religion--the drive to explain the world, humans, and humans’ place in the universe – can be seen to encompass environmentalism as an offshoot of the secular, material faith in human reason and power that dominates modern society. Faith in Nature traces the history of environmentalism--and its moral thrust--from its roots in the Enlightenment and Romanticism through the Progressive Era to the present. Drawing astonishing parallels between religion and environmentalism, the book examines the passion of the movement’s adherents and enemies alike, its concern with the moral conduct of daily life, and its attempt to answer fundamental questions about the underlying order of the world and of humanity’s place within it. Thomas Dunlap is among the leading environmental historians and historians of science in the United States. Originally trained as a chemist, he has a rigorous understanding of science and appreciates its vital importance to environmental thought. But he is also a devout Catholic who believes that the insights of religious revelation need not necessarily be at odds with the insights of scientific investigation. This book grew from his own religious journey and his attempts to understand human ethical obligations and spiritual debts to the natural world. CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2005
Book Synopsis Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by : Charles Morris
Download or read book Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century written by Charles Morris and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Energy Consumption in England & Wales , 1560-2000 by : Paul Warde
Download or read book Energy Consumption in England & Wales , 1560-2000 written by Paul Warde and published by CNR Edizioni. This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Library of Congress. Copyright Office Publisher :Copyright Office, Library of Congress ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1406 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1976 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
