Title:	An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts
Other Titles:	Landscapes of Profi t and Betterment at the Dawn of the 19th century
Authors:	Quentin P., Lewis Charles E. Orser Jr
Keywords:	Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Issue Date:	2016
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	This book has emerged out of a long personal engagement with rural New England, as a place and as an idea. I have visited western Massachusetts since I was a child, when my parents brought me out to visit family friends and to scout out innumerable antique shops and markets. The landscape I encountered, in the 1980s, was of course a complex and heterogeneous one, but to my young eyes, the wooded and hilly regions of Worcester and Hampshire counties represented a romantic and symbolic home. My emotional attachment to rural New England was immediate and profound, a not uncommon inspiring impulse for archaeologists. Rural New England was different than other places for me. It was wild, authentic, and culturally rich. My later engagement with New England literature, particularly the nineteenthcentury transcendentalists and twentieth-century fantasy writers such as H.P. Lovecraft cemented the deep emotional, intellectual, and cultural importance that western Massachusetts had for me
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/13918
ISBN:	978-3-319-22105-2
Appears in Collections:	Archeology and Heritage Management

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