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The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes
Explorations in Slumland

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Part of New Directions in Archaeology

Editors:
Alan Mayne, University of Melbourne
Tim Murray, La Trobe University, Victoria

Alan Mayne, Tim Murray, Ellen Ross, Elain-Maryse Solari, Antonia Malan, Elizabeth van Heyningen, Grace Karskens, Barbara J. Little, Nancy J. Kasner, Paul Belford, Mary C. Beaudry, Stephen A. Mrozowski, Reginald Auger, William Moss, John P. McCarthy, Susan Lawrence, Rebecca Yamin

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Date Published: March 2002
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9780521779753

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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
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"This is an important and timely volume." American Journal of Archaeology

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Product details
- Date Published: March 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521779753
- length: 206 pages
- dimensions: 246 x 189 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.38kg
- contains: 32 b/w illus. 13 maps
- availability: Available
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.
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Editors
Alan Mayne, University of Melbourne
Alan Mayne is Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Melbourne. His publications include Fever, Squalor and Vice (1982), Represent the Slum (1991), The Imagined Slum (1993) and The Reluctant Italians (1997). Tim Murray is Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Hisotircal and Archaeological Studies at La Trobe University. He has written, with Judy Birmingham, Historical Archaeology of Australia - A Handbook, and edited The Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia (1998), Time and Archaeology (1999), The Great Archaeologists 2 vols (1999), and (with Atholl Anderson) Australian Archaeologist (2000).
Tim Murray, La Trobe University, Victoria
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Alan Mayne, Tim Murray, Ellen Ross, Elain-Maryse Solari, Antonia Malan, Elizabeth van Heyningen, Grace Karskens, Barbara J. Little, Nancy J. Kasner, Paul Belford, Mary C. Beaudry, Stephen A. Mrozowski, Reginald Auger, William Moss, John P. McCarthy, Susan Lawrence, Rebecca Yamin