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Jan. 9 | Call for papers: Identities and Technocultures
A 2-day conference about American culture and technologies that examines how new technologies dominate and define Americaness in the US and abroad. Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Center for Ethnic Studies and the Arts (CESA) and the Mid-America American Studies Association (MAASA).
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Izard, Holly V. . "Another Place in Time: The Material and Social Worlds of Sturbridge, Massachusetts, From Settlement to 1850," American Studies Program, Boston University, April 1996.
This study probes the material, social, cultural, and economic worlds of rural central New England in the eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries through probate records, architecture, primary documents, and nineteenth-century narratives for Sturbridge, Massachusetts. It shows that this region, which “came of age” with turnpikes and canals in the early nineteenth century, has a distinctly different material past than the older regions of the seaboard and Connecticut River Valley. In addition to presenting regional historical and material analysis, it offers a new perspective on methods for decoding and interpreting probate inventories to understand past material conditions.
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