An Archaeology of Capitalism

By:

Matthew Johnson

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Social Archaeology

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An Archaeology of Capitalism offers an account of landscape and material culture from the later Middle Ages to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. In tracing some of the roots of modernity back to the transformation of the countryside, this book seeks an innovative understanding of the transition between feudalism and capitalism, and does so through a unique synthesis of archaeology, economic, social and cultural history, historical geography and architectural history.Medieval and early modern archaeology has in the past focused on small-scale empirical contributions to the study of the period. The approach taken here is both wider-ranging and more ambitious. The author breaks down the dividing lines between archaeological and documentary evidence to provide a vivid reconstruction of pre-industrial material life and of the social and mental processes that came together in the post-medieval period in the transition towards modernity. Matthew Johnson is careful to avoid a simplifying evolutionary explanation, but rather sees the period in terms of a diversity of social and material practices evident in material traces - traces that survive and that, when reused in different contexts, came to mean different things.

Author Biography:

Matthew Johnson is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Durham. His published work includes Housing Culture: Traditional Architecture in An English Landscape.

Release date NZ

December 18th, 1995

Author

Matthew Johnson

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

260

Series

Social Archaeology

Dimensions

154x228x19

ISBN-13

9781557863485

Product ID

3092770

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