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Historical archaeology, one of the fastest growing of archaeology's sub fields in North America, has developed more slowly in Central and p- ticularly South America.

This is the first truly global survey of the relationship between artifacts and texts from historiographical, methodological, and analytical perspectives.

American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects - from tin cans and bottles to namebrand items, from fish bones to machinery - to analyze the way American capitalism works.

This unique book offers a theoretical framework for historical archaeology that explicitly relies on network theory.

Pluralism is arguably one of the most important features of modern society, and may be a key driver of progress in science, society and economic development. This book examines archaeological evidence pointing to effective power-sharing for the public good.

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 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.

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

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

Employing the considerable archaeological and historical skills in her armory, Susan Piddock tries to lift the lid on the lunatic asylums of years gone by. Films and television programs have portrayed them as places of horror where the patients are restrained and left to listen to the cries of their fellow inmates in despair.

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.

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, Who dies for the slightest reason.

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, Who dies for the slightest reason.

Church missions played a key role in colonisation. This work provides the first archaeological examination of a New Zealand mission station, and makes an important contribution to New Zealand archaeology and history. It also examines the global context.

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.