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Unearthing The Ancient Metropolis: Perth Amboy's Clark-Watson Site, Richard F. Veit

Northeast Historical Archaeology

This Clark-Watson Site in Perth Amboy, New Jersey is one of the richest early colonial sites in the state. It is named for two early property owners: Benjamin Clark a Scottish stationer and bookseller who moved to New Jersey in 1683 and John Watson (1685-1768), a noted 18^th-century artist. Excavations at the site by William Pavlovsky unearthed an extraordinary collection of colonial artifacts. The archaeological assemblage provides an unparalleled glimpse into the material life of settlers in Perth Amboy during a period when the city aspired to be a center of international trade and was competing directly and …

Sets And Sensibilities: The Excavation Of Ideology In Upstate New York, Christopher P. Barton, Kyle Somerville

Northeast Historical Archaeology

A growing literature on the archaeology of farmsteads and rural domestic sites has examined commodity consumption as the means by which rural families created and maintained social networks and identities. During the nineteenth century, rural areas were increasingly influenced by the practices and values of the urban middle classes, although not every farmstead would, or could, participate in the same way. This paper examines a matching teacup and saucer recovered from the Spring House, a former commercial farmstead and hotel located southeastern Monroe County, Western New York State. The tea set is decorated with transfer print depictions of Faith, Hope, …

The Rise And Fall Of American Queensware 1807-1822, Rebecca L. White, Meta F. Janowitz, George D. Cress, Thomas J. Kutys, Samuel A. Pickard

Northeast Historical Archaeology

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This article examines the history of several manufacturers of American queensware in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and beyond. Our research reveals that efforts to produce queensware were more extensive and widespread than previously thought. This survey expanded as we discovered references to contemporary queensware potteries in other parts of the United States during the first two decades of the 19th century. In all, 14 queensware-manufacturing ventures are identified and described from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, what is now West Virginia, Vermont, and New Hampshire. Much of this research is drawn from period newspaper notices, advertisements, and surviving personal correspondence. The period …

Translating Intertextuality As Intercultural Communication A Case Study, Bassam M. Al Saideen

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Intertextuality refers to the textual space where texts intersect and new (hyper)texts emerge. It is the shaping of a text’s meaning by other (inter)texts present in it. As a literary device taking forms like allusion, quotation, pastiche, translation, etc., it depends on the presupposition of the presence of intertexts (or hypotexts) in (hyper)texts and on the reader’s recognition of such presence. For the recognition of intertexts, authors usually rely on shared cultural knowledge with the reader. The presence of intertexts in a text can either open it to interpretations or direct the reader towards a one in particular. If such …

Analysis For Science Librarians Of The 2017 Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine: The Life And Work Of Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, And Michael W. Young, Neyda V. Gilman

Library Scholarship

Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash, and Michael W. Young are the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Laureates, having earned the award for their “discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm.” They identified the genes involved in the circadian rhythm mechanism and explained how all of the different pieces of the mechanism work together. These discoveries explain how the biological cycles of Earth’s organisms correspond to the rotation of the planet, acting as an inner clock. Their research also provides further opportunities to continue learning about the role of circadian rhythm and its relationship to human health (Nobelprize.org …

The Rise Of Cheap Nature, Jason W. Moore

Sociology Faculty Scholarship

We live at a crossroads in the history of our species – and of planetary life. What comes next is unknowable with any certainty. But it is not looking good. Environmentalist theory and research tells us, today, just how bad it is. Mass extinction. Climate Change. Ocean acidification. To these planetary shifts, one can add countless regional stories – runaway toxic disasters on land and at sea; cancer clusters; frequent and severe droughts. Our collective sense of " environmental consequences " has never been greater. But consequences of what? Of humanity as a whole? Of population? Of industrial civilization? Of …

A Family Affair: Whaling As Native American Household Strategy On Eastern Long Island, New York, Emily Button

Northeast Historical Archaeology

Nineteenth-century Native Americans from the northeastern United States became locally famous as mariners in the commercial whaling fleet. In the struggle to protect their small land bases and maintain their communities, going to sea became part of household practices for cultural and economic survival. From approximately 1800 through 1880, indigenous whaling families from Long Island used wages from commercial whaling to combat the limitations of land, credit, and capital that they faced on and off reservations. Whaling’s opportunities supported household formation and property accumulation among Shinnecock and Montaukett people for three generations, but whaling’s instability and risk meant that these …

"Something Deep And Resonating Lurked There": An Interview With Vanessa Blakeslee, Melanie J. Cordova

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

Pages 146-154

Harpur Palate, Volume 13, Issue 2, Winter & Spring 2014, Harpur Palate .

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

Contributors: David Bersell | Ben Black | Emma Bolden | Holly Burnside | Michael Chaney | Liz N. Clift | Susan Cohen | George Drew | Shawn Fawson | Ricky Garni | John Gifford| Chris Haug | Ivan Hobson | Erin Hoover | Austin Kodra | Adam Lambert | Richard Luftig | Caitlin McGuire | Lindsay Merbaum | Sarah Fawn Montogomery | M. G. Moscato | Devin Murphy | Jacob Newberry | John A. Nieves | David O'Connell | Andrea O'Rourke | Jacob Oet | Peter Sears | Carrie Shipers | Anthony Spinner | Dennis James Sweeney | Sara Wallace …

Patriots, Tories, Inebriates, And Hussies: The Historical Archaeology Of The Abraham Staats House, As A Case Study In Microhistory, Richard Veit, Michael J. Gall

Northeast Historical Archaeology

To modern suburbanites, life on a farm may seem hopelessly boring or, alternatively, charming and idyllic. Excavations at the Abraham Staats House in New Jersey’s Raritan Valley, just upriver from New Brunswick, provide a revealing glimpse of the dynamic and contentious lives of 18th- and 19th-century farmers. The Staats family, part of the early 18th-century Dutch migration to the Raritan Valley, saw their lives transformed by the Revolutionary War, the arrival of turnpike roads, the construction of the Delaware and Raritan Canal, the emancipation of slaves, the growth of the temperance movement, and family squabbles of Shakespearean proportions. Excavations at …

"Something Rich And Strange": Reburial In New York City, Anne-Marie Cantwell

Northeast Historical Archaeology

This article describes and discusses three recent cases in New York City in which anthropologists were involved in the identification, sanctification, and reburial of human remains. These examples show how living peoples may reach back into the past and join with the dead to form a desired "imagined community." Also discussed are the roles of anthropologists in these transformations of the dead into symbols of a desired body politic. Anthropologists who once focused on interpreting past social constructions are increasingly finding themselves playing crucial roles in the creation of modern ones.

Historical Skeletal Remains From Dundas County, Ontario: A Cautionary Tale Concerning Individual Identification, Lynda Wood, Janet Young

Northeast Historical Archaeology

A single burial dating to the historic period was unexpectedly discovered on a farm in rural Dundas County, Ontario. Based on a preliminary investigation, the remains were believed to be those of Margaret Ellen Bellway, an 8-year-old girl who lived on the property and who died in the year 1881. The objectives of this article are to demonstrate that establishing individual identification of historical remains is possible, to demonstrate the importance of exploring all relevant avenues of research prior to finalizing individual identification, and to demonstrate the means by which this is done. Skeletal analysis of the remains indicated a …

Conclusion: Meditations On The Archaeology Of Northern Plantations, Stephen A. Mrozowski,, Katherine Howlett Hayes, Heather Trigg, Jack Gary

Northeast Historical Archaeology

A summary of the methods employed and the conclusions reached after nine seasons of archaeological fieldwork are presented. Emphasis is placed on the success and limitations of the methods employed in the investigations at Sylvester Manor and results of those investigations. Although excavations concentrated on the plantation core, additional areas examined produced little in the way of archaeological features. The results, although preliminary, point to a major role for Native Americans as laborers during the earliest phases of the plantation’s operation. Landscape evidence also suggests an evolving economy as the Manor transitions from a provisioning operation to a commercial farm/tenant …

Harpur Palate Volume 7 Issue 2, Winter 2008, Harpur Palate .

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

Contributors: Jonathan Rice | Jennifer Chapis | Julie Marie Wade | Scott Bailey | Jennifer Chapis | Julie Marie Wade | Scott Bailey | Tom Christopher | Josie Sigler | Vidhu Aggarwal | Jennifer Sullivan | Susan Varnot | Jonette Larrew | Traci Brimhall | Tarfia Faizullah | Christian Knoeller | Matt Zambito | Chelle Miko | Colby Cedar Smith | Eric Rawson | Miriam Bird Greenberg | Maureen Alsop | John T. Trigonis | capuchina taylor | Peter Layton | Bram Shay | Adam Pellegrini | Keith Montesano | Carrie Shipers | Bruce Bennet | Karla Clark | James …

Harpur Palate, Volume 6 Issue 2, Winter 2007, Harpur Palate .

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

Maureen Alsop | Lisa Titus Caloro | Cynthia Grier Lotze | Jane Knechtel | Madelyn Garner | Charles Haverty | Jeffrey Dodd | Joshua A. Ware | T. J. Forrester | James Doyle | Mary Biddinger | Benjamin Stein | Erica Wright | Jill Khoury | Julie Platt | Hai Zi | Valerie Fioravanti | Jilly Dybka | Bruce Wrighton | Andrew Michael Roberts | Derek Pollard | Heather Caliri | Casey Lord | April Lindner | Chuck Charlie | Kathi Morrison-Taylor | Jill Christman |Patrick Lawler | Sankar Roy | John Pursley II | Jennifer Merrifield | Vanessa Russell …

The Troubles, Charles Haverty

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

pages 16-34

How We Say Good-Bye, Joan Connor

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

pages 143-167

Policies And Oranges, Jenny Steele

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

pages 7-23

Harpur Palate, Volume 3 Number 2, Winter 2003/2004, Harpur Palate .

Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal

Contributors: Jenny Steele | Lexi Rudnitsky | Ruth Stone | Margarita Engle | E. Evans | Jenny Dunning | Jennifer Perrine | Jeff Walt | Alice Stern | DeAnna Stephens Vaughn | Joanne Lowery | Laura L. Moffitt | Alan Brich | Mary Anne Mohanraj | M. Nasorri Pavone | Nina Robb | Sean Thomas Dougherty

Browning And Music: A Study Of Robert Browning's Use Of Musical Structuring Principles To Unify The Dramatic Monologues Of The Men And Women Of 1863 And The Ring And The Book, John Joseph Joyce

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

Robert Browning often insisted that he had studied music seriously and that he knew what he was about when he talked of or wrote about music. Moreover, he claimed that he had given “much attention to music proper…to the detriment of what people take for ‘music’ in his poetry.” Nonetheless, there has persisted among critics a nagging challenge as to the accuracy and depth of musical knowledge which Browning employed in fusing musical elements to poetry. My dissertation takes up this question with the aim of proving the validity of Browning’s claims.

I begin by concentrating upon Browning’s “Music Poems” …

Esthetics Of Dedalus And Bloom: Nineteenth Century Roots, Structural Metaphors, And Resolutions, Marguerite Harkness

Graduate Dissertations and Theses

This study explores James Joyce's use of esthetics as a structuring source in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, especially as those esthetics derive from similarities and references to and analogues from the nineteenth century tradition of English poets, novelists, and essayists which includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Horatio Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in Portrait, are inheritors of that tradition. Further, the study will trace through Ulysses the evolution of the esthetic and its counter-traditions in the esthetics represented …