The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes
The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes
Explorations in Slumland
March 2002
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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. 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.
- Global coverage
- Focuses on the archaeology of the eighteenth- and nineteenth- century city in the Anglo-Saxon world
- Innovative theoretical framework integrating archaeological and written documentary evidence
Reviews & endorsements
"This is an important and timely volume." American Journal of Archaeology
Product details
March 2002Paperback
9780521779753
206 pages
246 × 189 × 11 mm
0.38kg
32 b/w illus. 13 maps
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction Alan Mayne and Tim Murray
- Part I:
- 2. Slum journeys: ladies and London poverty 1860–1940 Ellen Ross
- 3. Empty spaces: West Oakland, California Elaine-Maryse Solari
- 4. Horstley Street, District Six Antonia Malan and Elizabeth van Heyningen
- 5. New perspectives from Sydney's 'Rocks' district Grace Karskens
- 6. Archaeology of Washington DC's alley life after the Civil War Barbara J. Little and Nancy J. Kassner
- Part II:
- 7. The Sheffield Crofts, 1736–1836 Paul Belford
- 8. Cultural space and worker identity in the company city Mary Beaudry and Stephen A. Mrozowski
- 9. High times, low times and tourist floods Reginald Auger and William Moss
- 10. Values and identity in the working class worlds of late nineteenth-century Minneapolis John P. McCarthy
- 11. Imaginary landscapes Alan Mayne, Tim Murray, and Susan Lawrence
- 12. New York city's five points Rebecca Yamin.
