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Hace 3 días · The ambitious scope of The Culture of Nature in Britain 1680–1860 justifies a comparison with such magisterial works as Keith Thomas’ Man and the Natural World, Donald Worster’s Nature’s Economy, and Raymond Williams’ The City and the Country. (1) An urge ‘for system, order and design’ defined the unity of 18th-century thought ...
Hace 3 días · Parenting in England 1760-1830: Emotion, Identity, and Generation. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780199565191; 296pp.; Price: £65.00. This is an outstanding book, which will open up a new area of research for historians of the family. We have so many good histories of children and childhood, but Joanne Bailey’s book is the ...
Hace 2 días · In addition to the standard periodization, proponents of a "long Renaissance" may put its beginning in the 14th century and its end in the 17th century. [c] The traditional view focuses more on the Renaissance's early modern aspects and argues that it was a break from the past, but many historians today focus more on its medieval aspects and argue that it was an extension of the Middle Ages.
Hace 2 días · 18th-century male life expectancy at birth was 34 years. Female expectation of remaining years at age 15 rose from ~33 years around the 15th-16th centuries to ~42 in the 18th century. 18th-century England: 25–40: For most of the century it ranged from 35 to 40; but in the 1720s it dipped as low as 25.
Hace 2 días · The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850. London, Bloomsbury, 2016, ISBN: 9781441188083; 272pp.; Price: £65.00. In contemporary understanding, a kitchen is a space which houses a heat source and appropriate utensils for preparing meals. How and why this kind of kitchen emerged in England between the 17th and mid-19th century is the story ...
Hace 3 días · In the 17th and 18th century pepper grew as a general and specific seasoning. Similarly, nutmeg emerged as a central feature of English cooking and sugar remained in frequent and enduring use. Nevertheless, despite the increased use of new groceries, recipes with explicit links to imperial spaces such as India formed a small percentage of those contained in the books Stobart studied.
Hace 2 días · With the possible exception of Spain, the 17th century state could not support armies of this size, forcing them to depend on "contributions" levied or extorted from areas they passed through. [183] Obtaining supplies thus became the limiting factor in campaign planning, an issue that grew more acute later in the war when much of the Empire had already been fought over.
