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1 online resource (261 p.) |
| Series |
Themes in Environmental History Series |
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Themes in environmental history (Routledge (Firm))
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Energy in the early modern home -- Notes -- References -- Part I: The materiality of energy: Fuels, technologies and practices -- 1. Continuity and change in the search for domestic warmth: Material culture, fuels and practices (France, sixteenth-nineteenth centuries) -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The use of the fireplace: aspects and problems -- 1.3 'Search for warmth' rather than 'home heating' -- 1.4 The fundamental problem of access to energy -- 1.5 The subtle hierarchy of fuels |
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1.6 The mechanics of change -- 1.7 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2. A Warm Renaissance: Material culture and heating techniques in Venetian artisans' homes (sixteenth-seventeenth centuries) -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.1.1 Sources -- 2.2 Living with limited resources: society, economy and architecture -- 2.2.1 Social status and economic means -- 2.2.2 Popular housing -- 2.3 Producing and preserving heat -- 2.3.1 Producing energy -- 2.3.2 Producing and using heat -- 2.4 Energy-saving techniques and tricks -- 2.4.1 Maintaining warmth -- 2.4.2 Preserving body warmth: layering clothing |
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2.4.3 Recipes for keeping warm: the books of secrets -- 2.5 Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 3. Between home and manufacturing. The use of wood and charcoal in early modern Northern Italy: Two case studies -- 3.1 Introduction: aims, topic and methodology -- 3.2 Notes on wood consumption in Bologna and Milan during the eighteenth century: the context -- 3.3 What affected wood prices? -- 3.4 Notes about wood and charcoal consumption in the valleys of Eastern Lombardy -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- Part II: The cultural life of energy: Comfort, consumer culture and domesticity |
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4. Fireplaces and stoves as icons of comfort -- References -- 5. Material cultures of warmth in England and Sweden during the long eighteenth century -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Creating warmth: technologies and fuels -- 5.3 Heating spaces: public and private rooms -- 5.4 Material cultures of warmth -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Printed sources -- Literature -- Part III: The spaces of energy: Room uses and their functional specialisation -- 6. The kitchen: An early modern power house? Antwerp, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Functional specialisation |
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6.3 Sleeping in the kitchen? -- 6.4 Conviviality -- 6.5 Beyond cooking -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 7. Warmth for men: Kitchens and stables in peasant houses in Italy (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries) -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Peasant houses in agronomic literature -- 7.3 Kitchens and stables in the peasant houses of central Italy -- 7.4 Heating with animals: a controversial debate -- 7.5 Conclusions -- References -- Literature -- 8. Energy usage in the kitchen: Heat and material culture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Dutch cookbooks -- 8.1 Introduction |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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8.2 Material culture, food and fuel in archaeology and history |
| Subject |
Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation -- Europe -- History
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Energy consumption -- Europe -- History
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Material culture -- Europe
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Civilization, Modern.
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Civilization, Modern.
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Dwellings -- Heating and ventilation.
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Energy consumption.
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Material culture.
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Europe.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blondé, Bruno
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Ryckbosch, Wouter
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| ISBN |
9781000920116 |
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1000920119 |
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