Bücher der Reihe Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology

In the 19th Century, Deerfield, MA, became almost entirely female. This work uses Deerfield as a lens through which to study gender roles and social relations in the late 19th and early 20th century then applies lessons learned to other historical periods.

Employs historical archaeological evidence to demonstrate how polite rituals reproduced the social and material world of commerce in colonial Massachusetts. This title situates artifacts within the social contexts described in contemporary letters and diaries and depicted in literature and art.

In the most recent overview of industrial archaeology in the UK, Sir Neil Cossons cautioned that industrial archaeology risked becoming a "one generation subject", that stood on the edge of oblivion, alongside th the mid-20 century pursuit of folklife studies (Cossons 2000:13).

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.

This volume explores the range of interactions between the historical sources and archaeology that are available on the African continent. Written by a range of experts on different aspects of African archaeology, this book represents the first consideration of historical archaeology over the African continent as a whole.

My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject.

Archaeology can either bolster memory and tradition, or contradict the status quo and provide an alternative view of the past.

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.

The archaeology of war has revealed evidence of bravery, sacrifice, heroism, cowardice, and atrocities.The international array of case studies in Prisoners of War restores this hidden past through case studies of PoW camps of the Napoleonic era, the American Civil War, and both World Wars.

James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. Just as it is about all archaeology, not only historical archaeology, it is also a book about colonialism and national inde pendence and how these two enormous events happened in the context of eighteenth and nineteenth century capitalism.

Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism illustrates how archaeology contributes to the knowledge of early modern Spanish colonialism and the "first globalization" of the 16th and 17th centuries.