Energy in the early modern home : material cultures of domestic energy consumption in Europe, 1450-1850
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Energy in the early modern home : material cultures of domestic energy consumption in Europe, 1450-1850
（Themes in environmental history）
Routledge, 2024
- : hbk
Available at 1 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Uncovering, for the first time, the role played by home users in fostering energy changes, this book explores the effects of energy transitions between the medieval and industrial era on the everyday life of Europeans and considers how cultural, social and material changes in the home facilitated the transition towards a more energy-demanding world.
This book delves deeper into the interactions between early modern consumers and the ecological constraints of the world surrounding them. Experts on specific aspects of domestic energy use departing from different case studies in early modern Europe confront these central issues. This book therefore offers a wide range of approaches within a long-term and comparative perspective. Different 'material cultures of energy' across time and space and across different climates in Europe are explored.
Ultimately, this book aims to consider how the early modern home not just adapted to energy changes, but perhaps even prepared the way for our modern addiction to fossil energy. Energy in the Early Modern Home is the perfect resource for students and scholars of early modern Europe, premodern environmental history, the history of consumption and material culture, and the history of science and technology.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Part 1. Continuity and change in the search for domestic warmth: material culture, fuels, practices (France, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) 2. A Flaming Renaissance. The material culture of staying warm in the Venetian artisan's home (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) 3. Between home and manufacturing. The use of wood and charcoal in early modern Northern Italy: two case studies Part 2. 4. Fireplaces and stoves as icons of comfort 5. Material cultures of warmth in England and Sweden during the long eighteenth century Part 3. 6. The kitchen: an early modern power house? Antwerp, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries 7. Warmth for men: kitchens and stables in peasant houses in Italy (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) 8. Energy usage in the kitchen: heat and material culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch cookbooks 9. Energy and the functional specialisation of domestic space in eighteenth-century Ghent and Leiden: the early modern home as an 'energyscape' Part 4. 10. 'Those closest to the fire enjoy the most of its glow'. Inequality and energy in eighteenth-century Flanders
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