The Cambridge companion to historical archaeology / edited by Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hicks, Dan, 1972- editor.

Beaudry, Mary Carolyn, 1950-2020, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 404 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c. AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural resource management and urban archaeology. Three special sections explore the distinctive contributions of material culture studies, landscape archaeology and the archaeology of buildings and the household. Drawing on case studies from North America, Europe, Australasia, Africa and around the world, the volume captures the breadth and diversity of contemporary historical archaeology, considers archaeology's relationship with history, cultural anthropology and other periods of archaeological study, and provides clear introductions to alternative conceptions of the field. This book is essential reading for anyone studying or researching the material remains of the recent past.

Contents:

Introduction : the place of historical archaeology / Dan Hicks and Mary C. Beaudry

Documentary archaeology / Laurie Wilkie

Historical archaeology and time / Gavin Lucas

Writing historical archaeology / Rosemary Joyce

Historical archaeology and colonialism / Susan Lawrence and Nick Shepherd

Urban historical archaeology / Tadhg O'Keeffe and Rebecca Yamin

Archaeology, heritage and the recent and contemporary past / John Schofield and William Gray Johnson

Marxism and capitalism in historical archaeology / Randall McGuire

Historical archaeology and industrialisation / James H. Symonds and Eleanor C. Casella

Historical maritime archaeology / Joe Flatman and Mark Staniforth

Material culture studies and historical archaeology / Matthew D. Cochran and Mary C. Beaudry

Ceramic studies in historical archaeology / David Barker and Teresita Majewski

Landscapes and memories / Cornelius Holtorf and Howard Williams

Landscapes, ideology and experience in historical archaeology / Lu Ann De Cunzo and Julie Ernstein

Historical archaeology and buildings / Dan Hicks and Audrey Horning

Household archaeology, identities and biographies / Julia A. King

Afterword : historical archaeology in the wider discipline / Barry Cunliffe.

Notes:

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781139167321

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