The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes: Explorations in SlumlandAlan James Christian Mayne, Alan Mayne, Tim Murray Cambridge University Press, 2001 M12 13 - 192 pages 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. Including twelve case studies, it maps out a new field, which will attract the attention of a range of students and scholars outside archaeology, in particular historical sociologists and historians. |
Contents
The archaeology of urban landscapes explorations in slumland | 1 |
Slum journeys ladies and London poverty 18601940 | 11 |
The making of an archaeological site and the unmaking of a community in West Oakland California | 22 |
Twice removed Horstley Street in Cape Towns District Six 18651982 | 39 |
Archaeology in the alleys of Washington DC | 57 |
Small things big pictures new perspectives from the archaeology of Sydneys Rocks neighbourhood | 69 |
Imaginary landscapes reading Melbournes Little Lon | 89 |
Work space and power in an English industrial slum the Crofts Sheffield 17501850 | 106 |
Cultural space and worker identity in the company city nineteenthcentury Lowell Massachusetts | 118 |
The archaeology of physical and social transformation high times low tides and tourist floods on Quebec citys waterfront | 132 |
Values and identity in the workingclass worlds of late nineteenthcentury Minneapolis | 145 |
Alternative narratives respectability at New Yorks Five Points | 154 |
Bibliography | 171 |
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