Table Settings : The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 1700-1900.

Table Settings : The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 1700-1900.

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Fernand Braudel famously observed that the 'mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization'. The way that food is prepared, served, and eaten reveals a great deal about the structure and workings of any society. It is therefore not surprising that food, and the culturally specific et...

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Author / Creator: Symonds, James.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Havertown : Oxbow Books, Limited, 2010.
Subjects:
Food habits > History > 18th century > Congresses.
Food habits > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Dinners and dining > Social aspects > History > 18th century > Congresses.
Dinners and dining > Social aspects > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Material culture > History > 18th century > Congresses.
Material culture > History > 19th century > Congresses.
Archaeology and history > Congresses.
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Contributors
  • 1. Introduction (James Symonds)
  • 2. Producing for the Table: A View from the Staffordshire Potteries (David Barker)
  • 3. Trade Catalogues: Elaborations and Virtual Collections (Christine Ball)
  • 4. Chocolatada! Sensing the Past: Recreating a 17th-Century Chocolate Recipe (Annie Gray)
  • 5. Conspicuous Consumption: How to Organize a Feast (Joan Unwin)
  • 6. Dining at Endcliffe Hall (Julie Banham)
  • 7. Privy to the Feast: Eighty to Supper Tonight (Mary C. Beaudry)
  • 8. Separating the Spheres in Early 19th-Century New York City: Redefi ning Gender amongthe Middle Class (Diana diZerega Wall)
  • 9. Domesticity and the Dresser: An Archaeological Perspective from Rural 19th-CenturyPembrokeshire (Harold Mytum)
  • 10. 'We Lived Well at the Hagg': Foodways and Social Belonging in Working-ClassRural Cheshire (Darren Griffi n and Eleanor Conlin Casella)
  • 11. The Material Manifestations of 19th-Century Irish America (Stephen A. Brighton)
  • 12 The Ceramic Revolution in Iceland (Gavin Lucas)
  • 13. Gentility: A Historical Context for the Material Culture of the Table in the 'Long 19th Century',1780-1915 (Linda Young)
  • 14. Feeding Workers: Food and Drink in Early Colonial Australia (Susan Lawrence)
  • 15. A Not So Useless Beauty: Economy, Status, Function, and Meaning in the Interpretation ofTransfer-Printed Tablewares (Alasdair Brookes)
  • 16. Postcard from Te Awamutu: Eating and Drinking with the Troops in the New Zealand War Front(Alexy Simmons).

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