This exciting collection on a new movement in urban archaeology investigates the historical archaeology of urban slums. The "stuff" that is dug up--broken dinner plates, nails and plaster samples--will not quickly find its way into museum collections. But, properly interpreted, it yields evidence of lives and communities that have left little in the way of written records. Twelve case studies define a new field, which will attract the attention of a range of students and scholars outside archaeology, in particular, historical sociologists and historians.
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This exciting collection on a new movement in urban archaeology investigates the historical archaeology of urban slums. The stuff that is dug up--broken dinner plates, nails and plaster samples - will not quickly find its way into museum collections. But, properly interpreted, it yields evidence of lives and communities that have left little in the way of written records. Including twelve case studies, it maps out a new field, which will attract the attention of a range of students and scholars outside archaeology, in particular historical sociologists and historians.
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In a handful of modern city places, archaeologists and historians together are probing within the all-but-forgotten local horizons of vanished inner-city neighbourhoods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
slum myths, imagined slum, alley dwellers, historical archaeology, alley life, alley dwellings, postal facility, historical archaeologists, lower town, later deposit, model cities program Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, West Oakland, Cape Town, District Six, Horstley Street, Casselden Place, African American, Alan Mayne, Boott Mills, Bridgehead Site, Pearl Street, United States, Godden Mackay, Grace Karskens, Rebecca Yamin, Courthouse Site, First Street North, Hunt Block, Interdisciplinary Investigations, Little Lonsdale Street, Université Laval, Oxford University Press, Peralta Villa, Cambridge University Press, Overseer's Block New!
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In a handful of modern city places, archaeologists and historians together are probing within the all-but-forgotten local horizons of vanished inner-city neighbourhoods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
slum myths, imagined slum, alley dwellers, historical archaeology, alley life, alley dwellings, postal facility, historical archaeologists, lower town, later deposit, model cities program Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, West Oakland, Cape Town, District Six, Horstley Street, Casselden Place, African American, Alan Mayne, Boott Mills, Bridgehead Site, Pearl Street, United States, Godden Mackay, Grace Karskens, Rebecca Yamin, Courthouse Site, First Street North, Hunt Block, Interdisciplinary Investigations, Little Lonsdale Street, Université Laval, Oxford University Press, Peralta Villa, Cambridge University Press, Overseer's Block New!
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- District Six by Adam Small on 5 pages
- Historical Archaeology (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology) by Martin Hall on 4 pages
- The English Terraced House by Stefan Muthesius on 4 pages
- Historical Archaeology (2nd Edition) by Charles E. Orser on page 67, page 129, and Back Matter
- Class Fictions: Shame and Resistance in the British Working Class Novel, 1890–1945 (Post-Contemporary Interventions) by Pamela Fox on page 169, page 170, and Back Matter
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- Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Eleanor C. Casella on page 133, page 260, and Back Matter
- Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Eleanor C. Casella on page 133, page 260, and Back Matter
- The Archaeology of Contact in Settler Societies (New Directions in Archaeology) by Tim Murray in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities: Beyond Identification by Eleanor C. Casella on page 187, and page 188
- The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities: Beyond Identification by Eleanor C. Casella on page 187, and page 188
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