Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives

✍ Scribed by Lu Ann De Cunzo, Nedda Moqtaderi (auth.), Mary C. Beaudry, James Symonds (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although historical archaeologists often explore similar themes, the intellectual traditions in the United States and the United Kingdom lead to differing interpretations of these themes. The contributions to this innovative volume provide a bridge between a US-based archaeologist and a UK-based archaeologist on the themes of landscape studies, urban archaeology, memory and memorialization, gender studies, the lives of industrial workers, and archaeological biographies. The chapters are not meant to stand in isolation, but rather provide a dialog between both groups. This work explores the strengths of interpretive historical archaeology in the US and the UK, as well as compare and contrast differing approaches. It aims to foster debate and productive collaborations between historical archaeologists from different geographic regions. It will of interest to UK and US-based archaeologists, as well as those performing interpretive historical archaeology in other regions who will benefit from the insights it provides.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An American Landscape Conversation....Pages 3-23
Estate Landscapes in England: Interpretive Archaeologies....Pages 25-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Beyond Stories: A Quantitative Approach to the Archaeology of Households, Neighborhoods, and Cities....Pages 45-61
Stooping to Pick Up Stones: A Reflection on Urban Archaeology....Pages 63-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Passing for Black in Seventeenth-Century Maryland....Pages 87-112
“Sorting Stones”: Monuments, Memory and Resistance in the Scottish Highlands....Pages 113-139
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Stitching Women’s Lives: Interpreting the Artifacts of Sewing and Needlework....Pages 143-158
The Intimacy of Death: Interpreting Gender and the Life Course in Medieval and Early Modern Burials....Pages 159-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Mrs. Perrin’s “Tranklements”: Community Life and Class Distinction in (Post)Industrial-Era Cheshire....Pages 177-195
Attitudes to Religion, Education, and Status in Worker Settlements: The Architectural and Archaeological Evidence from Wales....Pages 197-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
Revelations: Comments on Interpreting the Early Modern World....Pages 229-233
Back Matter....Pages 235-243

✦ Subjects

Archaeology