Globalization and the spread of capitalism: material resonances

Horning, Audrey; Schweickart, Eric

doi:10.1080/00794236.2016.1169490

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“…Ideas of freedom and progress are closely connected to individualization, which lies at the basis of capitalist ideology (Johnson 1996 :203; Leone 1999a :211). The ethos of self-improvement, the possibility to climb up the social ladder if only one tries hard enough, conceals the many inequalities within the system (Horning and Schweickart 2016 :36). The materialized segregation into classes reinforces the social position of those aboard, but it simultaneously reflects the promise of a better life through hard work.…”

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Ocean-Liner Ceramics: A Red Star Line Assemblage in Antwerp, Belgium

Poulain

2022

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In contrast to what films such as Titanic would have people believe, scientific knowledge about ocean liners is fairly limited. These boats and their material culture, however, functioned as symbols of modernity par excellence and thus allow a better understanding of the advent of a new world at the turn of the 20th century. The focus of this article is a ceramic assemblage from the Red Star Line, the shipping company that transported some two million migrants from Antwerp (Belgium) to the United States between 1873 and 1934. The analysis of this material provides new insights into the furnishings and daily life aboard these ships. Moreover, the possible reuse of these maritime objects ashore forms a basis for a discussion of the ways in which ordinary people entered into the modern world using material culture and to what extent they might have embraced the values associated with these mass-produced goods.

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Ocean-Liner Ceramics: A Red Star Line Assemblage in Antwerp, Belgium

Poulain

2022

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“…Or an unremarkable everyday object of so little value that it escaped attention in the packing up of the household effects? 106 These considerations make no explicit reference to cost of the vessel (V 1 ), but the 'informed imagining' of its value (V 2 ) is based on knowledge of the material's provenance and the owner's life history.…”

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Approaching the archaeology of value: a view from the modern world

Crook

2019

Post-Medieval Archaeology

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View related articles View Crossmark data Citing articles: 2 View citing articles He or she notes objects of 'someoccasionally of greatintrinsic value', such as wedding gifts 'which we don't in the slightest degree appreciate, and secretly yearn to be delivered from', and lists several items materially unsuitable for burning in that 'judicious' fire: Metallic rubbish, earthen ware rubbish, bone and ivory rubbish, old door handles, disabled locks, bunches of obsolete keys, superseded door knockers, ancient jam pots, broken china figures, plaster casts without noses, empty ink jars, medicine bottles half full of mixture which was to be taken three times a day and wasn't, wornout tooth brush handles, knobs that have come off everything that could have a knob, handles of everything that could have a handlehandles of parasols, of button hooks, of butter knives, of paper knives, of water jugs, of tea pots. 2

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“…In the same 2016 anniversary issue of PMA, Horning and Schweickart observed that, in the first 20 years of the journal's history, the term capitalism never appeared, and was only sporadically invoked in the following 30 years. 2 Karl Marx was not directly referenced until 2008. 3 The essays in this issue not only correct that oversight, but more importantly seek to reposition the role and understanding of political economy, and in many instances overlapping political economies, as a productive vehicle for exploring and understanding the complexities of the early modern and modern worlds.…”

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