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Title Table settings : the material culture and social context of dining, AD 1700-1900 / edited by James Symonds
Published Oxford, [UK] ; Oakville, Conn. : Oxbow Books, [2010]
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Description viii, 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Contents Contents note continued: 10.̀We Lived Well at the Hagg': Foodways and Social Belonging in Working-Class Rural Cheshire / Eleanor Conlin Casella -- 11.The Material Manifestations of 19th-Century Irish America / Stephen A. Brighton -- 12.The Ceramic Revolution in Iceland / Gavin Lucas -- IV.Transported Values: The Southern Hemisphere -- 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 of Transfer-Printed Tablewares / Alasdair Brookes
Machine generated contents note: I.The Consumer Revolution & The Development of Taste -- 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 -- II.Elite Feasting & The Cult of Domesticity -- 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: Redefining Gender among the Middle Class / Diana diZerega Wall -- III.Cultural Continuity & Transformation -- 9.Domesticity and the Dresser: An Archaeological Perspective from Rural 19th-Century Pembrokeshire / Harold Mytum --
Notes Includes papers presented at conference entitled "The table : the material culture and social context of dining in the historical periods," held at University of Sheffield, April 23-25, 2004
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Archaeology and history -- Congresses.
Dinners and dining -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Dinners and dining -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Food habits -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Food habits -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Material culture -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Material culture -- History -- 19th century -- Congresses.
Social archaeology -- Congresses.
Social history -- 18th century -- Congresses.
Social history -- 19th century -- Congresses.
SUBJECT United Kingdom -- Colonies -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056658
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Symonds, James.
LC no. 2010029592
ISBN 1842172980 (hbk.)
9781842172988 (hbk.)