Review essay: The tangible past: Historical Archaeology in Cities

Journal of Urban History

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 633-644

  Yamin, Rebecca ^a  

^a John Milner Associates   (United States)

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EID: 40849114179     PISSN: 00961442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0096144206297220     Document Type: Review

References (11)

1. see, for instance, Mark P. Leone, P.B. Potter Jr., and P.A. Shackel, “Toward a Critical Archaeology,” Current Anthropology 28 (1987): 283-302; Parker B. Potter Jr., Public Archaeology in Annapolis: A Critical Approach to History in Maryland's Ancient City (Washington, D.C., 1994) and Christopher N. Matthews, An Archaeology of History and Tradition, Moments of Danger in the Annapolis Landscape (New York, 2002).
2. David Lowenthal, The Past Is a Foreign Country (Cambridge, UK, 1985).
3. see, for instance, M. Shanks and C. Tilley, Re-Constructing Archaeology: Theory and Practice (London, 1987) Ian Hodder, ed., Towards Reflexive Method in Archaeology: The Example at Catalhoyuk (Cambridge, 2000) and Christopher N. Matthews, An Archaeology of History and Tradition, Moments of Danger in the Annapolis Landscape (New York, 2002).
4. Diana di Zerega Wall, “ Sacred Dinners and Secular Teas: Constructing Domesticity in Mid-19th-Century New York,” in Donna Seifert, ed., Gender in Historical Archaeology (1991): 69-89; and The Archaeology of Gender: Separating the Spheres in Urban America ( New York, 1994).
5. Alan Mayne, Fever, Squalor, and Vice: Sanitation and Social Policy in Victorian Sydney (London, 1982) Representing the Slum, Urban History Yearbook (1990), 66-84; and The Imagined Slum, Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914 (Leicester, 1993).
6. Henry Glassie, Passing the Time in Ballymenone, Culture and History of an Ulster Community (Philadelphia, 1982).
7. see, for instance, chap. 7 in Charles E. Orser's A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (New York, 1996).
8. Mary C. Beaudry, Lauren J. Cook, and Stephen A. Mrozowski, “Artifacts and Active Voices: Material Culture as Social Discourse,” in Randall H. McGuire and Robert Paynter, eds., The Archaeology of Inequality (Baltimore, 1991), 150-91.
9. Richard Veit and Paul W. Schopp, “Who's Been Drinking on the Railroad? Archaeological Excavations at the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Lakehurst Shops,” Northeast Historical Archaeology 28 (1999): 21-40.
10. Charles E. Orser, A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (New York, 1996), 173.
11. Sean Wilentz, Chants Democratic: New York City and the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850 (New York, 1984) Christine Stansell, City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860 (Urbana, 1987) Paul A. Gilje, The Road to Mobocracy: Popular Disorder in New York City, 1763-1834 (Chapel Hill, 1987) Elizabeth Blackmar, Manhattan for Rent, 1785-1850 (Ithaca, 1989) Richard B. Stott, Workers in the Metropolis: Class, Ethnicity and Youth in Antebellum New York City (Ithaca, 1990) Timothy L. Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790-1920 (New York, 1992) Marilynn Wood Hill, Their Sisters' Keepers: Prostitution in New York City 1830-1870 ( Berkeley, 1993) and Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher, The New York Irish (Baltimore, 1996). 12. Carol Groneman Pernicone, “‘The Bloody Ould Sixth’: A Social Analysis of a New York City Working-Class Community in the Mid-Nineteenth Century” (PhD dissertation, Department of History, University of Rochester, 1973).