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Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity
Small Time Agents in a Global Arena
Av Magdalena Naum, Jonas M. Nordin
Häftad, 2015
1809 kr
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In Scandinavian Colonialism and the Rise of Modernity: Small Time Agents in a Global Arena, archaeologists, anthropologists, and historians present case studies that focus on the scope and impact of Scandinavian colonial expansion in the North, Africa, Asia and America as well as within …
Historical Archaeology of the Modern World
Inbunden, 1996
569 kr
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This unique book offers a theoretical framework for historical archaeology that explicitly relies on network theory. Charles E. Orser, Jr., demonstrates the need to examine the impact of colonialism, Eurocentrism, capitalism, and modernity on all archaeological sites inhabited after 1492 and shows …
Culture Change and the New Technology
An Archaeology of the Early American Industrial Era
Inbunden, 1996
1130 kr
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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 …
Between Artifacts and Texts
Historical Archaeology in Global Perspective
Inbunden, 1998
1130 kr
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This book is about historical archaeologies all over the world; about their history, their methods, and their raison d'etre. The focus is on an existential question for archaeology: whether investigations of mate rial culture are necessary at all when studying societies with writing. Is it not …
Archaeology and the Capitalist World System
A Study from Russian America
Inbunden, 1997
1130 kr
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History has many voices. In the words of Russian fur merchant Grigorii Shelikhov, who led the conquest of Kodiak Island, Alaska, in 1784 and sought to subjugate its indigenous Qikertarmiut population, "the arrival of the Russians in their land had brought them innumerable advantages, security, and …
Archaeology of Social Space
Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
Inbunden, 1998
1130 kr
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James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area …
Landscape Transformations and the Archaeology of Impact
Social Disruption and State Formation in Southern Africa
Inbunden, 1999
1130 kr
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An attempt to use archaeological materials to investigate the colonization of southeastern Africa during the period 1500 to 1900. Perry demonstrates the usefulness of archaeology in bypassing the biases of the ethnohistorical and documentary record and generating a more comprehensive understanding …
Historical Archaeology of Buenos Aires
A City at the End of the World
Inbunden, 1999
1130 kr
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A discussion of the historical archaeology of one of the largest cities in the world following four centuries of marginal positioning in regard to empires, trade routes, and the production and accumulation of wealth. The author describes how Buenos Aires came to achieve its current status as a …
Meaning and Ideology in Historical Archaeology
Style, Social Identity, and Capitalism in an Australian Town
Inbunden, 1999
1130 kr
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Focusing on the city of Armidale during the period 1830 to 1930, this book investigates the relationship between the development of capitalism in a particular region (New England, Australia) and the expression of ideology within architectural style. The author analyzes how style encodes meaning and …
Race and Affluence
An Archaeology of African America and Consumer Culture
Inbunden, 1999
569 kr
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An archaeological analysis of the centrality of race and racism in American culture. Using a broad range of material, historical, and ethnographic resources from Annapolis, Maryland, during the period 1850 to 1930, the author probes distinctive African-American consumption patterns and examines how …
Archaeology of Manners
The Polite World of the Merchant Elite of Colonial Massachusetts
Av Lorinda B.R. Goodwin, Lorinda B. R. Goodwin
Inbunden, 1999
1130 kr
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A glance at the title of this book might well beg the question “What in heaven’s name does archaeology have to do with manners? We cannot dig up manners or mannerly behavior—or can we?” One might also ask “Why is mannerly behavior important?” and “What can archaeology contribute to our …
Domestic Architecture and Power
The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador
Inbunden, 1999
1130 kr
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This volume is a study of the power relationships inherent in domestic architecture and household material culture that were essential to the maintenance of the Spanish colonial empire. Using the household spatial patterning, furnishings, and personal belongings of residents of the highland city of …
Archaeology and Created Memory
Public History in a National Park
Inbunden, 2000
1130 kr
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Archaeology can either bolster memory and tradition, or contradict the status quo and provide an alternative view of the past. An archaeology of Harpers Ferry's wartime and Victorian eras confronts time-honored historical interpretations of the past (created and perpetuated by such interest groups …
Historical Archaeology of the Ottoman Empire
Breaking New Ground
Inbunden, 2000
1130 kr
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Archaeology in the Middle East and the Balkans rarely focuses on the recent past; as a result, archaeologists have largely ignored the material remains of the Ottoman Empire. Drawing on a wide variety of case studies and essays, this volume documents the emerging field of Ottoman archaeology and …
Archaeology of History and Tradition
Moments of Danger in the Annapolis Landscape
Inbunden, 2002
569 kr
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As the foundations of the modern world were being laid at the beginning of the 19th century, Annapolis, Maryland, identified itself as the Ancient City. This unusual appellation has served Annapolis into the present as a city that has consistently defined and redefined for itself what being ancient …
Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life
The Gibbs Farmstead in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920
Inbunden, 2003
1692 kr
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Historical archaeology has largely focused on the study of early military sites and homes of upper class. Research on lower classes was viewed as a supplement to local histories documenting political, military and financial leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries. This text should be of interest to …
Rural Society in the Age of Reason
An Archaeology of the Emergence of Modern Life in the Southern Scottish Highlands
Inbunden, 2003
1130 kr
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My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject. Growing up on the eastern fringes of the southern Highlands, close to Loch Lomond, it was not hard stumble across ruined buildings, old field boundaries, and other traces of everyday …
Rural Society in the Age of Reason
An Archaeology of the Emergence of Modern Life in the Southern Scottish Highlands
Häftad, 2003
1130 kr
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My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject. Growing up on the eastern fringes of the southern Highlands, close to Loch Lomond, it was not hard stumble across ruined buildings, old field boundaries, and other traces of everyday …
Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life
The Gibbs Farmstead in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920
Häftad, 2003
1692 kr
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Historical archaeology has largely focused on the study of early military sites and homes of upper class. Research on lower classes was viewed as a supplement to local histories documenting political, military and financial leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries.An Archaeological Study of Rural …
African Historical Archaeologies
Av Andrew M. Reid, Paul J. Lane
Inbunden, 2003
1692 kr
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This volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. The contributions, written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, present the underlying issues such as:- The conflict and …
African Historical Archaeologies
Av Andrew M. Reid, Paul J. Lane
Häftad, 2003
1692 kr
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This volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. The contributions, written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, present the underlying issues such as:- The conflict and …
Archaeology of Colonial Identity
Power and Material Culture in the Dwars Valley, South Africa
Av Gavin Lucas
Inbunden, 2004
1130 kr
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This book examines how colonial identities were constructed in the Cape Colony of South Africa since its establishment in the 17th century up to the 20th century. It takes an explicitly archaeological approach, which also draws more widely on documentary material to examine how different people in …
Archaeology of Colonial Identity
Power and Material Culture in the Dwars Valley, South Africa
Av Gavin Lucas
Häftad, 2006
1130 kr
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This book examines how colonial identities were constructed in the Cape Colony of South Africa since its establishment in the 17th century up to the 20th century. It takes an explicitly archaeological approach, which also draws more widely on documentary material to examine how different people in …
Industrial Archaeology
Future Directions
Av Eleanor Casella, James Symonds
Inbunden, 2005
1130 kr
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Eleanor Conlin Casella and James Symonds th The essays in this book are adapted from papers presented at the 24 Annual Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, held at the University of Manchester, in December 2002. The conference session “An Industrial Revolution? Future Directions for …
Industrial Archaeology
Future Directions
Av Eleanor Casella, James Symonds
Häftad, 2005
1130 kr
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Eleanor Conlin Casella and James Symonds th The essays in this book are adapted from papers presented at the 24 Annual Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, held at the University of Manchester, in December 2002. The conference session “An Industrial Revolution? Future Directions for …
Interpreting the Early Modern World
Transatlantic Perspectives
Av Mary C. Beaudry, James Symonds
Inbunden, 2010
1130 kr
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Interpretive archaeology – meaning the interpretation (social science as opposed to hard science) of archaeology and archaeological artifacts – has predominantly been the realm of prehistoric archaeologists. Many historical archaeologists are participating in this disciplinary shift from …
Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania
Inbunden, 2007
1692 kr
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This book draws largely on my unpublished Doctoral Thesis: A Space of Their Own: Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in England, South Australia and Tasmania, and l am happy to send information on South Australia and Tasmania not included in this book to interested readers. I would like to dedicate …
Te Puna - A New Zealand Mission Station
Historical Archaeology in New Zealand
Inbunden, 2008
569 kr
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Evangelical missionary societies have been associated with the processes of colonisation throughout the globe, from India to Africa and into the Pacific. In late 18th-century Britain, the Church Missionary Society for Africa and the East (CMS) began its missionary ventures, and in the first decade …
Historical Archaeology of Gendered Lives
Inbunden, 2009
1130 kr
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During the last half of the nineteenth century, a number of social and economic factors converged that resulted in the rural village of Deerfield, Massachusetts becoming almost entirely female. This drastic shift in population presents a unique lens through which to study gender roles and social …
Memories from Darkness
Archaeology of Repression and Resistance in Latin America
Av Pedro Funari, Andres Zarankin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
570 kr
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To Write What one Could Not Tell Anyone You who live in all tranquility So warm and comfortable in your houses, You who come home at night to find The table laid and friendly faces around you, Consider if this is a man, He who toils in the mud, Who knows no rest, Who fights for a crust of bread, …
