Landscapes of Profit and Betterment at the Dawn of the 19th century
by
Quentin Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This book probes the materiality of Improvement in early 19th century rural Massachusetts. Improvement was a metaphor for human intervention in the dramatic changes taking place to the English speaking world in the 18th and 19th centuries as part of a transition to industrial capitalism. The meaning...