The Culture of the English People
Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution
- Author: N. J. G. Pounds
- Date Published: August 1994
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521466714
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This wide-ranging book, first published in 1994, traces the development of popular culture in England from the Iron Age, when it first becomes apparent as a whole, to the eighteenth century. The concept of popular culture is here taken to be the body of ideas which is held by a people about itself and its environment, both physical and social, together with the tools and artefacts through which its members related to one another and to the outside world; it follows therefore that the general theme of the book is peoples' attitude to, and use of, their environment. After a short discussion of the Prehistoric and Roman cultures the book deals in depth with the essential foundations - shelter and housing, warmth and security, furnishings and domestic convenience, food and its preparation, and ultra-familial and ultra-communal relations. A separate chapter is devoted to the culture of towns. The text is illustrated throughout by objects, artefacts and structures, many of which are visual representations of earlier cultures.
Read more- A wide-ranging synthesis of a mass of visual and written material on English popular culture
- Makes extensive use of visual images which illustrate the text throughout and which are almost all sketched by the author
- Professor Pounds is a well-known and prolific author whose volumes on historical geography have become standard texts
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'This is a brave and valuable book … marvellously interesting, free-flowing descriptive passages and the outstanding achievement of marrying material culture with intellectual, ideological and aesthetic.' Peter Laslett, History Today
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I highly recommend this book to all those who are interested and English culture.
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- Date Published: August 1994
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521466714
- length: 496 pages
- dimensions: 248 x 175 x 34 mm
- weight: 0.78kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The view from Danebury
2. Roman interlude
3. House and household
4. Heat, light and insecurity
5. The house furnished
6. Food, its production, preservation and preparation
7. In sickness and in death
8. The community of parish and village
9. The family
10. The culture of cities
11. The foundations of popular culture
12. Conclusion: the end of popular culture
Notes
Index.
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