The Culture of the English People: Iron Age to the Industrial Revolution

By Norman J.G. Pounds

Book Overview

This wide-ranging book, first published in 1994, traces the development of popular culture in England from the Iron Age, when it first becomes apparent as a whole, to the eighteenth century. The concept of popular culture is here taken to be the body of ideas which is held by a people about itself and its environment, both physical and social, together with the tools and artefacts through which its members related to one another and to the outside world; it follows therefore that the general theme of the book is peoples' attitude to, and use of, their environment. After a short discussion of the Prehistoric and Roman cultures the book deals in depth with the essential foundations - shelter and housing, warmth and security, furnishings and domestic convenience, food and its preparation, and ultra-familial and ultra-communal relations. A separate chapter is devoted to the culture of towns. The text is illustrated throughout by objects, artefacts and structures, many of which are visual representations of earlier cultures.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521466717
• ISBN13: 9780521466714
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.8"