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The Archaeology of Industrialization: Papers given at the Archaeology of Industrialization Conference, October 1999, Hosted Jointly by Associatoin for ... Monograph 2) (spma monographs) (v. 2)
The Archaeology of Industrialization Papers given at the Archaeology of Industrialization Conference October 1999 Hosted Jointly by Associatoin for Monograph 2 - spma monographs - v. 2 Author:D. Barker, D Cranstone 'Industrial' and 'post-medieval' archaeology have traditionally been seen as two separate disciplines, with different roots and very different intellectual interests, thus separating production from consumption and leaving the study of non-industrial aspects of 19th and 20th century society in a disciplinary no-man's land. This volume, emanati... more »ng from a joint conference of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology and the Association for Industrial Archaeology held in Bristol in 1999, aims to break down the barriers, both cultural and chronological, between the two disciplines. Twenty-three papers from Britain and western Europe address the relationships between production and consumption, the contribution of archaeology to a period so rich in historical sources, the nature of historical archaeology, and the role both of industrialisation itself and of its material record in the development of our own society.« less