Abstract
In this chapter we examine the manufacture and movement of goods. Just as people migrated about the globe in the nineteenth century in response to a wide variety of historical circumstances, goods were made, transported and discarded within the parameters of changing cultural, technological and economic processes. In order to understand how patterns of material culture might reflect patterns of migration or the cultural norms and challenges of migration (i.e. the archaeology of migration), we must first understand the goods themselves. Here we introduce the concept of ‘global material culture’, a phrase which we use to describe the core range of domestic goods consumed throughout the world in the nineteenth century.
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See Crook 2008 for exploration of these matters using store and mail-order catalogues of the second half of the nineteenth century.
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For example, Parker 1833 (Van Diemen’s Land [Tasmania]), James 1838 (South Australia and Port Phillip [Victoria]), Baker 1845 (Sydney & Melbourne), Wiley and Putnam 1845 (American colonies), Maconochie 1848 (all Australian colonies), Lancelott 1852 (all Australian colonies) and Earp 1852 (Australian goldfields).
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Parker (1833: 223) notes that ‘There is no general rule as to the quantity of luggage and freight’ for steerage passengers – i.e. it would vary from ship to ship.
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Murray, T., Crook, P. (2019). Global Material Culture in the Modern City. In: Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27169-5_6
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