The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in Slumland - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521779758 ISBN 13: 9780521779753

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Riassunto

This exciting 2001 collection on a movement in urban archaeology investigates the historical archaeology of urban slums. The material that is dug up - broken dinner plates, glass grog bottles, and innumerable tonnes of building debris, 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 eleven case studies, five on cities in the United States and one each on London and Sheffield, and futher chapters on Cape Town, Sydney, Melbourne and Quebec City, 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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"This is an important and timely volume." American Journal of Archaeology

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This exciting 2001 collection investigates the historical archaeology of urban slums. Excavations yield evidence of communities that have left few written records. Including eleven case studies, it maps 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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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0521779758
• ISBN 13: 9780521779753
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 204
• Redattore: Mayne Alan