A historical archaeology of Delaware : people, contexts, and the cultures of agriculture / Lu Ann De Cunzo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Cunzo, Lu Ann.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conditions.

Historic sites.

Local history.

Farmhouses.

History.

Farms.

Agriculture--Social aspects.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Archaeology and history.

Delaware--Antiquities.

Delaware.

Antiquities.

Archaeology and history--Delaware.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Delaware.

Agriculture--Social aspects--Delaware--History.

Agriculture.

Farms--Delaware--History.

Farmhouses--Delaware--History.

Delaware--History, Local.

Historic sites--Delaware.

Delaware--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

xviii, 484 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2004]

Contents:

1. Brokering the Cultures of Delaware's Agricultural Communities: Archaeologists, Merchant-Farmers, and Tenants 1

A Discovery 1

The Cultures of Agriculture 3

The Culture Broker 7

Merchants as Brokers 41

Brokers and Cultures and "Frivolous Trinkets" 70

2. Historical Archaeology Lessons from Delaware 73

History, the People, the Places 73

Managing Delaware's Historical Archaeological Resources 88

Delaware History 91

Distinctly Delaware 116

Lessons in Bridge Building 120

3. "Progressive" New Castle and Kent's "Golden Opportunity" 121

Farming Folks 121

The Historic Context 124

Agricultural Places 148

Archaeology of the Cultures of Agriculture 156

4. Toward the Cultures of Agriculture 165

Encountering the Material World 165

Improving Agriculture at the Buchanan-Moffett Farm, 1846-1925 166

Remembering an Ogletown Tenant Farm, ca. 1830-1950 192

Gone and Almost Forgotten: Remaking the Farm on Muddy Branch, 1850-1900 210

Keeping the Gate and Reforming the Farm at Mount Vernon Place, ca. 1844-1890 221

5. Brokering Culture at the Intersections: Historical Archaeological Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity in Delaware's Agricultural Communities 231

Encountering Race and Ethnicity in the Material World 231

Working on Farms: An African American Family at Home, in the Community, and in Global Context, 1875-1922 236

Working Other People's Land and Doing Their Laundry on a Christiana Tenancy after the Civil War 270

A Home of Their Own, ca. 1887-1915 285

Conclusion: An Archaeology of People, Places, Histories, and the Cultures of Agriculture 295

Archaeological Perspectives on the Histories of Delaware's People, Places, and Cultures 295

Brokering Improvement: Exchange in Delaware's Agricultural Communities 297

Dwelling in New Castle and Kent Agricultural Communities, 1830-1940 300

Fencing Capitalist Farming 302

Reinventing Tradition on the Farm 304

Differences of Place 306

Differences of Class 309

Differences of Race and Ethnicity 310

Future Directions in the Historical Archaeology of the Cultures of Agriculture 313

Appendix 1. Jonathon Allee's Purchases, 1809-1810 317

Appendix 2. Benjamin Coombe's Purchases, 1809-1810 322

Appendix 3. Jonathon Allee's Payments Received, 1809-1810 326

Appendix 4. Benjamin Coombe's Payments Received, 1809-1810 328

Appendix 5. Property Types in New Castle and Kent Counties, 1830-1940 331

Appendix 6. Evaluation of Property Types of New Castle and Kent Counties, 1830-1940 353.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-467) and index.

ISBN:

1572332492

OCLC:

52948765