Social Approaches to an Industrial Past

ISBN 10: 0415642787 / ISBN 13: 9780415642781

Published by Routledge, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Social Approaches to an Industrial Past
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415642787
• ISBN 13: 9780415642781
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Social Approaches to an Industrial Past addresses the social issues of mining communities in research spanning a period of 4,500 years. The volume considers themes which are relatively new to archaeology:
* the social context of production
* gender
* power and labour exploitation
* imperialism and colonialism
* production and technology.

About the Author

A. Bernard Knapp is reader in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Vincent C. Pigott is Senior Researcher at the Museum Applied Science Centre for Archaeology (MASCA), University of Pennsylvania Museum. Eugenia W. Herbert is E. Nevious Rodman Professor of History Emeritus, Mount Holyoke College, and book review editor for the African Studies Review.