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Social History and Material Culture of Boston’s North End, 1860-1880

Alcohol

Fitts, Robert. "The Rhetoric of Reform: The Five Points Missions and the Cult of Domesticity." Historical Archaeology 35, no. 3 (2001): 115-32.

Reckner, Paul E., and Stephen A. Brighton. "'Free from All Vicious Habits': Archaeological Perspectives on Class Conflict and the Rhetoric of Temperance." Historical Archaeology 33, no. 1 (1999): 63-75.

Ceramics

Brighton, Stephen. "Middle-Class Ideologies and American Respectability: Archaeology and the Irish Immigrant Experience." International Journal of Historical Archaeology 15, no. 1 (2011): 30-50.

Brighton, Stephen. "Prices That Suit the Times: Shopping for Ceramics at the Five Points." Historical Archaeology 35, no. 3 (2001): 16-30.

Bull, Knut Astrup, and Paul Scott. Horizon: Transferware and Contemporary Ceramics. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2015.

Ewins, Neil, and City Museum & Art Gallery (Stoke-on-Trent, England). "Supplying the Present Wants of Our Yankee Cousins...": Staffordshire Ceramics and the American Market, 1775-1880. Stoke-on-Trent, England: City Museum & Art Gallery, 1997.

Klein, Terry. "Nineteenth-century Ceramics and Models of Consumer Behavior." Historical Archaeology 25, no. 2 (1991): 77-91.

Miller, George L. "Classification and Economic Scaling of 19th Century Ceramics." Historical Archaeology 14 (1980): 1-40.

Samford, Patricia. "Response to a Market: Dating English Underglaze Transfer-printed Wares." Historical Archaeology 31, no. 2 (1997): 1-30.

Wall, Diana Di Zerega. "Sacred Dinners and Secular Teas: Constructing Domesticity in Mid-19th-century New York." Historical Archaeology 25, no. 4 (1991): 69-81.

Wall, Diana Di Zerega. “Separating the Spheres in Early 19th Century New York City: Redefining Gender among the Middle Classes.” In Table Settings: The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 1700-1900, edited by James Symonds, 80-88. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2010.

Consumption, Production, and Advertising

Cook, Lauren, Rebecca Yamin, and John McCarthy. "Shopping as Meaningful Action: Toward a Redefinition of Consumption in Historical Archaeology." Historical Archaeology 30, no. 4 (1996): 50-65.

Nosal, Janice. "'Improvement the Order of the Age': Historic Advertising, Consumer Choice, and Identity in 19th Century Roxbury, Massachusetts." Master's thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2016.

Orser, Charles. "Beneath the Surface of Tenement Life: The Dialectics of Race and Poverty during America’s First Gilded Age." Historical Archaeology 45, no. 3 (2011): 151-65.

Pope, Daniel. “Making Sense of Advertisements.” History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, 2003.

Rosenberg, Chaim M. Goods for Sale: Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2007.

Foodways

Gray, Annie. "'Perfection and Economy': Continuity and Change in Elite Dining Practices, ca. 1780–1880." In The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century, edited by Alasdair Mark Brooks, 216-242. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Lobel, Cindy R. "Food in 19th-Century American Cities." In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press, 2016.

Glass Bottles

Lorrain, Dessamae. "An Archaeologist's Guide to Nineteenth Century American Glass." Historical Archaeology 2 (1968): 35-44.

Poulsen, Jennifer. "Urban Consumption in Late 19th-Century Dorchester." Master's thesis, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2011.

Material Culture of Children

Calvert, Karin Lee Fishbeck. Children in the House: The Material Culture of Early Childhood, 1600-1900. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1992.

Carskadden, Jeff, and Richard Gartley. "A Preliminary Seriation of 19th-century Decorated Porcelain Marbles." Historical Archaeology 24, no. 2 (1990): 55-69.

Formanek-Brunell, Miriam. Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.

Randall, Mark. "Early Marbles." Historical Archaeology 5 (1971): 102.

Randall, Mark E. Marbles as Historical Artifacts. Trumbull, CT: Marble Collectors Society of America, 1979.

Riley, Noël, and Maureen Batkin. Gifts for Good Children: The History of Children's China. Shepton Beauchamp, Ilminster, Somerset: Richard Dennis, 1991.

Wilkie, Laurie A. “Not Merely Child’s Play: Creating a Historical Archaeology of Children and Childhood.” In Children and Material Culture, edited by Joan Sofaer Derevenski, 100-13. London: Routledge, 2000.

Medicine Bottles

Baldwin, Joseph K. A Collector's Guide to Patent and Proprietary Medicine Bottles of the Nineteenth Century. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1973.

Brighton, Stephen. "Degrees of Alienation: The Material Evidence of the Irish and Irish American Experience, 1850–1910." Historical Archaeology 42, no. 4 (2008): 132-53.

New England’s Material Culture

Nylander, Jane C. Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home, 1760-1860. New York: Knopf, 1993.

Sheumaker, Helen, and Shirley Teresa Wajda. Material Culture in America Understanding Everyday Life. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2008.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth. New York: Knopf, 2001.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher, Ivan Gaskell, Sara Schechner, Sarah Anne Carter, and Samantha van Gerbig. Tangible Things: Making History through Objects. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

Personal Adornment

Stevens, Sarah, and Margaret Ordoñez. "Fashionable and Work Shoes from a Nineteenth-Century Boston Privy." Historical Archaeology 39, no. 4 (2005): 9-25.

White, Carolyn L. American Artifacts of Personal Adornment, 1680-1820: A Guide to Identification and Interpretation. California: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005.

Smoking Paraphernalia

Hilton, Matthew. Smoking in British Popular Culture, 1800-2000: Perfect Pleasures. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2000.

Rafferty, Sean M., and Rob Mann. Smoking and Culture: The Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2004.

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