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dc.contributor.authorQuentin P., Lewis-
dc.contributor.editorCharles E. Orser Jr-
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-24T06:40:11Z-
dc.date.available2018-10-24T06:40:11Z-
dc.date.issued2016-
dc.identifier.isbn978-3-319-22105-2-
dc.identifier.urihttp://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/13918-
dc.descriptionThis 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-
dc.languageenen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.subjectContributions To Global Historical Archaeologyen_US
dc.titleAn Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusettsen_US
dc.title.alternativeLandscapes of Profi t and Betterment at the Dawn of the 19th centuryen_US
dc.typeBooken_US
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