Historical Archaeology of the American West – serie
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On the Edge of Purgatory
An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado
Inbunden, 2012
645 kr
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Southeastern Colorado was known as the northernmost boundary of New Spain in the sixteenth century. By the late 1800s, the region was U.S. territory, but the majority of settlers remained Hispanic families. They had a complex history of interaction with indigenous populations in the area and …
Mining Archaeology in the American West
A View from the Silver State
Inbunden, 2010
587 kr
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Mining played a prominent role in the shaping and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. Following the discovery of the famous Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, mining became increasingly industrialized, changing mining technology, society, and culture throughout the world. In the …
Virginia City
Secrets of a Western Past
Häftad, 2012
283 kr
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Spent cartridges. The pieces of an original Tabasco Pepper Sauce bottle. Shards of a ceramic pot, stained red. For archaeologists each of the thousands of artifacts uncovered at a site tells a story. For noted Comstock authority Ronald M. James, it is a story resulting from decades of research and …
Historical Archaeology Through a Western Lens
Av Mark Warner, Margaret Purser
Inbunden, 2017
819 kr
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A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. The work of many western-based historical archaeologists over the past decade, however, has revealed narratives that …
Situational Identities Along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico
Inbunden, 2018
645 kr
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Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico examines pluralistic communities that navigated between colonial and indigenous practices to negotiate strategic alliances with both sides of generations-old conflicts. The rich history of the southwestern community of Casitas …
Alliance Rises in the West
Labor, Race, and Solidarity in Industrial California
Inbunden, 2020
703 kr
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Alliance Rises in the West documents the experiences of a company town at a critical moment in the rise of working-class consciousness in nineteenth-century California. Through archaeological research Charlotte K. Sunseri overcomes the silence of the documentary record to re-examine the mining …
Coming Man from Canton
Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862–1943
Inbunden, 2017
761 kr
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In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. During the 1860s Chinese immigrants arrived by the thousands, moving into the Rocky Mountain West and …
Segregation Made Them Neighbors
An Archaeology of Racialization in Boise, Idaho
Inbunden, 2023
877 kr
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Segregation Made Them Neighbors investigates the relationship between whiteness and nonwhiteness through the lenses of landscapes and material culture. William A. White III uses data collected from a public archaeology and digital humanities project conducted in the River Street neighborhood in …
Eldorado!
The Archaeology of Gold Mining in the Far North
Av Catherine Holder Spude, Robin O. Mills m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
611 kr
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When gold was discovered in the far northern regions of Alaska and the Yukon in the late nineteenth century, thousands of individuals headed north to strike it rich. This massive movement required a vast network of supplies and services and brought even more people north to manage and fulfill those …
