| dc.contributor.author | Field, Richard Henning. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:34:42Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1990 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1990 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN64426 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55179 | |
| dc.description | Very little research has been conducted on the social and cultural life of the Lunenburg-Germans of Nova Scotia beyond Bell's original work on migration. Employing material culture methodology within a regional context, this thesis examines the material life of the merchants and yeomen of Lunenburg County from 1760 to 1830. Using probate inventories and the examination of period architecture and domestic furnishings, discussion ranges from the migration of the foreign Protestants to Nova Scotia, to the settlement of Lunenburg, to analysis of architecture and domestic interiors, to the study of specific aspects of Lunenburg material life including textiles and printed matter, and finally the proxemic patterns of specific merchant/yeoman households. | en_US |
| dc.description | Evidence suggests that merchants set the standard for the embellishment of their domestic setting, and were agents for material change helping to reduce and eventually eliminate the tension between the European and English decorative traditions. As literate men they helped to shape the social and cultural environment of their community. Their position, power, literacy and material wealth were reflected in the style of their domestic dwellings and household furnishings. | en_US |
| dc.description | Some yeoman sought to improve their domestic environment based on the standards set by the merchants which led to the rise of a yeoman-craftsman group. These families were able to augment their farming income with additional skills such as carpentry and weaving allowing them to embellish their own households with socially acceptable objects such as looking glasses and clocks. Through the social power of objects yeoman-craftsman were able to remain an internal part of their community. Yeoman who had little domestic space to display objects, or money to afford them, became more disenfranchised from the society particularly if illiterate. The rise of the yeoman-craftsman group is supported by the probate evidence, and is an important development which will require further study. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1990. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | History, Canadian. | en_US |
| dc.title | The material lives of Lunenburg German merchants and yeoman: The evidence based on probate inventories, 1760-1830. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
