Energy in the Early Modern Home : Material Cultures of Domestic Energy Consumption in Europe, 1450-1850 Paperback / softback
Edited by Wout Saelens, Bruno Blonde, Wouter Ryckbosch
Part of the Themes in Environmental History series
Paperback / softback
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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:250 pages, 15 Tables, black and white; 51 Line drawings, black and white; 26 Halftones, black and wh
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:02/08/2023
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- ISBN:9780367681357
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:250 pages, 15 Tables, black and white; 51 Line drawings, black and white; 26 Halftones, black and wh
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:02/08/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367681357
