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Informationen zum Autor Matthew Johnson is a distinguished writer and body positivity advocate. With a background in social sciences and journalism, Matthew has devoted his career to exploring societal norms and attitudes towards body image, particularly focusing on men's experiences. His candid writing style, combined with an empathetic understanding of human experiences, has made him a beloved figure in the body positivity community. In "The Bold and the Bulge: Unraveling Men's Body Image," Matthew delves into the world of men's swimwear, using the iconic Speedo as a lens to explore broader issues of masculinity, body image, and self-expression. His work continues to inspire and challenge readers to reconsider their perceptions and to celebrate the beauty of all bodies. Klappentext An Archaeology of Capitalism offers an account of landscape and material culture from the later Middle Ages to the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. In tracing some of the roots of modernity back to the transformation of the countryside, this book seeks an innovative understanding of the transition between feudalism and capitalism, and does so through a unique synthesis of archaeology, economic, social and cultural history, historical geography and architectural history. Medieval and early modern archaeology has in the past focused on small-scale empirical contributions to the study of the period. The approach taken here is both wider-ranging and more ambitious. The author breaks down the dividing lines between archaeological and documentary evidence to provide a vivid reconstruction of pre-industrial material life and of the social and mental processes that came together in the post-medieval period in the transition towards modernity. Matthew Johnson is careful to avoid a simplifying evolutionary explanation, but rather sees the period in terms of a diversity of social and material practices evident in material traces - traces that survive and that, when reused in different contexts, came to mean different things. Zusammenfassung Opens up new ways of thinking about the period! 1400-1750. An original and theoretically-informed contribution to the discipline. Wide-disciplinary appeal. Well-illustrated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Enduring Structures and Historical Understanding. 3. Understanding Enclosure. 4. Housing! Fields! Maps and Cultures. 5. Ordering the World. 6. Archaeologies of Authority. 7. Redefining the Domestic. 8. Thinking about Objects. Conclusion. Glossary. References. Index. ...
