The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850
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| Title: | The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 |
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| Description: | Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the construction of domestic relations between husband and wife, masters, mistresses and servants and householders and outsiders; and as a crucial resource in contemporary heritage landscapes. |
| Authors: | Sara Pennell |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Material culture--England--History, Culture, Kitchens--Social aspects--England, Domestic space--England--History |
| Categories: | HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Social History |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Tracing the emergence of the domestic kitchen from the 17th to the middle of the 19th century, Sara Pennell explores how the English kitchen became a space of specialised activity, sociability and strife. Drawing upon texts, images, surviving structures and objects, The Birth of the English Kitchen, 1600-1850 opens up the early modern English kitchen as an important historical site in the construction of domestic relations between husband and wife, masters, mistresses and servants and householders and outsiders; and as a crucial resource in contemporary heritage landscapes. |
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| ISBN: | 9781441188083 9781350056183 9781441166975 9781441191861 |
