An Archaeology of Improvement in Rural Massachusetts: Landscapes of Profit and Betterment at the Daw

Preface.- Part 1: Improvement as archaeological subject.- Chapter 1: Rural Life and Historical Archaeology.- Chapter 2: Improvement, Capitalism, and Landscape Change.- Part 2: Improving New England at the dawn of the 19th century.- Chapter 3: Rural New England in Time and Place.- Chapter 4: Improvement and Agriculture in Massachusetts at the dawn of the 19 th century.- Chapter 5: Excavating the Yeoman: Materializing the idealized people and landscapes of Improvement literature.- Chapter 6: The E.H. Williams House.- Chapter 7: The Logic of Improvement in the Williams Yard.- Chapter 8: Manuring and the political economy of Improvement.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.- Appendix: The archaeology of the EH Williams House.