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Lying in the Dark Room

Architectures of British Maternity

By: Emma Cheatle

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Lying in the Dark Room

Architectures of British Maternity

By: Emma Cheatle

Lying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today. Where conventional architectural histories objectify buildings (in parallel with the objectification of the maternal body), the book—in the mode of creative practice research—presents a creative-critical autotheory of the architecture of lying-in. It uses feminist, subjective modes of thinking that travel across disciplines, registers and arguments. The book assesses the transformation of maternity spaces—from the female bedchamber of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century marital homes, to the lying-in hospitals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries purposely built by man-midwives, to the late twentieth-century spaces of home and the modern hospital maternity wing—and the parallel shifts in maternal practices. The spaces are not treated as mute or neutral backdrops to maternal history but as a series of vital, entangled atmospheres, materials, practices and objects that are produced by, and, in turn, produce particular social and political conditions, gendered structures and experiences. Moving across spaces, systems, protagonists and their subjectivities, the book shows how hospital design and protocol altered ordinary birth at home and continues to shape maternal spatial experience today. As such, it will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from architectural historians, theoreticians, designers and students to medical humanities historians, to English Literature, humanities and material studies scholars, as well as those interested in creative-critical writing.

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Taylor & Francis

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100381137X

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9781003811374

Building Charleston

Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World

By: Emma Hart

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Building Charleston

Town and Society in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic World

By: Emma Hart

In the colonial era, Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest city in the American South. From 1700 to 1775 its growth rate was exceeded in the New World only by that of Philadelphia. The first comprehensive study of this crucial colonial center, Building Charleston charts the rise of one of early America's great cities, revealing its importance to the evolution of both South Carolina and the British Atlantic world during the eighteenth century. In many of the southern colonies, plantation agriculture was the sole source of prosperity, shaping the destiny of nearly all inhabitants, both free and enslaved. The insistence of South Carolina's founders on the creation of towns, however, meant that this colony, unlike its counterparts, would also be shaped by the imperatives of urban society. In this respect, South Carolina followed developments in the rest of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, where towns were growing rapidly in size and influence. At the vanguard of change, burgeoning urban spaces across the British Atlantic ushered in industrial development, consumerism, social restructuring, and a new era in political life. Charleston proved no less an engine of change for the colonial Low Country, promoting early industrialization, forging an ambitious middle class, a consumer society, and a vigorous political scene. Bringing these previously neglected aspects of early South Carolinian society to our attention, Emma Hart challenges the popular image of the prerevolutionary South as a society completely shaped by staple agriculture. Moreover, Building Charleston places the colonial American town, for the first time, at the very heart of a transatlantic process of urban development.

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289

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University of Virginia Press

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0813928699

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9780813928692

Trading Spaces

The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism

By: Emma Hart

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Trading Spaces

The Colonial Marketplace and the Foundations of American Capitalism

By: Emma Hart

When we talk about the economy, “the market” is often just an abstraction. While the exchange of goods was historically tied to a particular place, capitalism has gradually eroded this connection to create our current global trading systems. In Trading Spaces, Emma Hart argues that Britain’s colonization of North America was a key moment in the market’s shift from place to idea, with major consequences for the character of the American economy. Hart’s book takes in the shops, auction sites, wharves, taverns, fairs, and homes of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America—places where new mechanisms and conventions of trade arose as Europeans re-created or adapted continental methods to new surroundings. Since those earlier conventions tended to rely on regulation more than their colonial offspring did, what emerged in early America was a less-fettered brand of capitalism. By the nineteenth century, this had evolved into a market economy that would not look too foreign to contemporary Americans. To tell this complex transnational story of how our markets came to be, Hart looks back farther than most historians of US capitalism, rooting these markets in the norms of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain. Perhaps most important, this is not a story of specific commodity markets over time but rather is a history of the trading spaces themselves: the physical sites in which the grubby work of commerce occurred and where the market itself was born.

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281

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University of Chicago Press

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0226833275

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9780226833279

The Magic of Christmas

By: Emma Craig,Annie Kimberlin,Kathleen Nance,Stobie Piel

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The Magic of Christmas

By: Emma Craig,Annie Kimberlin,Kathleen Nance,Stobie Piel

Four magical, romantic tales of Christmas are collected in this volume, featuring stories by Emma Craig, Annie Kimberlin, Kathleen Nance, and Stobie Piel. Reissue.

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404

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Love Spell

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0505522837

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9780505522832

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Gardening

By: Jane O'Connor,Emma Sweeney

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Gardening

By: Jane O'Connor,Emma Sweeney

A concise, user friendly guide covering all the basics, this second edition offers extensive lists of easy-to-grow plants, tips on how to save money on tools, and full-color photos and illustrations. 8-page color insert.

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0028627679

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9780028627670

Book's by Emma Carolina Wood

Lying in the Dark Room

Lying in the Dark Room

Building Charleston

Building Charleston

Trading Spaces

Trading Spaces

The Magic of Christmas

The Magic of Christmas

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Gardening

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Gardening

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