Sydney Watts
Biographic Data
| ID | 3743792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sydney Watts |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sydney |
| FAMILY NAME | Watts |
| SIGNATURE | WATTS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | History, University of Richmond |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
David Gentilcore. Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450–1800
Eating well and healthy living are human constructs often swayed by the opinions of foodies and medical experts. In diets of the past, perhaps as much as in today’s, specific foods were prescribed for individual well-being, and sought after as markers of social status. Yet what makes diet such a noteworthy topic, particularly to historians of early modern Europe, is the question of continuity and change that can be documented through medical trea…
Food and the Annales School
Food history emerged as a serious academic pursuit in the wake of a major reorientation in the field of history led by French scholars of the Annales School. Established in 1929 by French historians Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the Annales in 1929 was a ground-breaking journal dedicated to historical and contemporary research in economics and sociology. Although the Annales is not solely responsible for the rise of social history, its founders u…
Meat matters: Butchers, politics, and market culture in eighteenth-century Paris
Boucherie et hygiène à Paris au XVIIIe siècle
Sydney WATTS Boucherie et hygiène à Paris au XVIIIesiècle À Paris, au XVIIIesiècle, la vente et la dis~tribution de la viande de boucherie connaissent une croissance telle que sa préparation à l'inté~rieur de la ville, source de pollution de l'air et de l'eau, devient problématique. Le développement anarchique du commerce illégal fait concurrence aux maîtres bouchers et aux bouchers étaliers de la corporation, et rend difficile leur contrôle du m…
Boucherie et hygiène à Paris au XVIIIe siècle
Sydney WATTS Boucherie et hygiène à Paris au XVIIIesiècle À Paris, au XVIIIesiècle, la vente et la dis~tribution de la viande de boucherie connaissent une croissance telle que sa préparation à l'inté~rieur de la ville, source de pollution de l'air et de l'eau, devient problématique. Le développement anarchique du commerce illégal fait concurrence aux maîtres bouchers et aux bouchers étaliers de la corporation, et rend difficile leur contrôle du m…
Boucherie et hygiène à Paris au XVIIIe siècle
Sydney WATTS Boucherie et hygiène à Paris au XVIIIesiècle À Paris, au XVIIIesiècle, la vente et la dis~tribution de la viande de boucherie connaissent une croissance telle que sa préparation à l'inté~rieur de la ville, source de pollution de l'air et de l'eau, devient problématique. Le développement anarchique du commerce illégal fait concurrence aux maîtres bouchers et aux bouchers étaliers de la corporation, et rend difficile leur contrôle du m…
Meat matters: Butchers, politics, and market culture in eighteenth-century Paris
Food and the Annales School
Food history emerged as a serious academic pursuit in the wake of a major reorientation in the field of history led by French scholars of the Annales School. Established in 1929 by French historians Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre, the Annales in 1929 was a ground-breaking journal dedicated to historical and contemporary research in economics and sociology. Although the Annales is not solely responsible for the rise of social history, its founders u…
David Gentilcore. Food and Health in Early Modern Europe: Diet, Medicine and Society, 1450–1800
Eating well and healthy living are human constructs often swayed by the opinions of foodies and medical experts. In diets of the past, perhaps as much as in today’s, specific foods were prescribed for individual well-being, and sought after as markers of social status. Yet what makes diet such a noteworthy topic, particularly to historians of early modern Europe, is the question of continuity and change that can be documented through medical trea…
Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 18th century (1 works) · 18th century (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Agriculture (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)