Harpers Ferry was one of America's earliest and most significant industrial communities - serving as an excellent example of the changing patterns of human relations that led to dramatic progress in work life and in domestic relations in modern times. In this well-illustrated book, Paul A. Shackel investigates the historical archaeology of Harpers Ferry, revealing the culture change and influence of new technology on workers and their families. He focuses on the contributions of laborers, craftsmen, and other subordinate groups to industrial progress, and examines ethnic and interracial development in an economy that was transformed from craft-based to industrial.
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`An insightful discussion about the implications of social inequality within an industrial society.' Historical Archaeology, 32:2 (1998) `Interesting and cogent...A useful archaeological reference for the material manifestations of early industrialisation.' The Midden, 30:1 (1998)
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"In this volume Shackel presents a very interesting and cogent discussion on the impact of early capitalist industrialisaion on people and their community. This is a very good study in which an anthropological/social historical theoretical approach has been applied to "industrial archaeology". The text is well-written, and illustrated with maps, plans, art work, and photographs. For thosse of us that investigate industrial sites, Shackel's study provides a useful archaeological reference for the material manifestations of early industrialisation."Robbin Chatan
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armory households, armory town, armory workers, military superintendency, armory dwellings, armory canal, transformation from craft, armory grounds, armory officials, armory superintendent, household assemblage, musket factory, meat weight, rifle works, entire gun, factory discipline, piecework system, national armories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harpers Ferry, United States, Shenandoah Street, Civil War, Virginius Island, Class Mammalia, Ordnance Department, Lower Town, Springfield Armory, Potomac River, John Hall, National Park Service, Shenandoah River, The New Technology, Harper's Ferry-The Early Years, War Department, Old World, Master Armorer Beckham, Superintendent Stubblefield, Virginia Free Press, Secretary of War, Order Artiodactyla, Benjamin Moor, Class Aves, John Brown's Fort New!
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armory households, armory town, armory workers, military superintendency, armory dwellings, armory canal, transformation from craft, armory grounds, armory officials, armory superintendent, household assemblage, musket factory, meat weight, rifle works, entire gun, factory discipline, piecework system, national armories Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Harpers Ferry, United States, Shenandoah Street, Civil War, Virginius Island, Class Mammalia, Ordnance Department, Lower Town, Springfield Armory, Potomac River, John Hall, National Park Service, Shenandoah River, The New Technology, Harper's Ferry-The Early Years, War Department, Old World, Master Armorer Beckham, Superintendent Stubblefield, Virginia Free Press, Secretary of War, Order Artiodactyla, Benjamin Moor, Class Aves, John Brown's Fort New!
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- Archaeology and Created Memory: Public History in a National Park (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Paul A. Shackel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An Archaeology of Social Space: Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica's Blue Mountains (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by James A. Delle in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Eleanor C. Casella on page 240, and Back Matter
- Nineteenth-and Early Twentieth-Century Domestic Site Archaeology in New York State (New York State Museum Bulletin #495) by John P. Hart on page 16, and page 78
- Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions (Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology) by Eleanor C. Casella on page 240, and Back Matter
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