Crossing Paths or Sharing Tracks?

Senior Lecturer in Historical Archaeology, University of Leicester Professor Emerita of Industrial Archaeology, University of Leicester

• ForewordIntroduction - Audrey HorningIntroduction From crossing paths to sharing tracks - Marilyn PalmerSection One Introduction: Of Practice and Paradigm - Audrey Horning and Marilyn PalmerThe Dialectics of Scale in the Historical Archaeology of the Modern World - Charles E. OrserAn amorphous farrago? The Contribution of Industrial Archaeology - David GwynPeople versus machines or People and Machines? Current Research Directions within British Post-medieval and Industrial ArchaeologyIndustrial Archaeology - Mike NevellA Review of the Archaeological Contribution to the understanding of the Industrial Past - Shane GouldTwenty years a'growing: University-based Teaching & Research of Historical Archaeology on the island of Ireland - Colin BreenIrish 'post-medieval' archaeology: time to lose our innocence? - Tadhg O'KeeffeEncouraging interest in the recent past - Tony CrosbyPost-Medieval Archaeology: a personal perspective - Paul CourtneyAn Archaeological Avant-Garde - James DixonSection Two: Analytical Approaches Introduction - Audrey Horning and Marilyn PalmerScience for historic industries - glass and glassworking - Sarah Paynter and David Dungworth and Justine BayleyBones of contention: why later post-medieval faunal assemblages in Britain matter - Richard ThomasFinds, Deposits, and Assigned Status: New Approaches to Defined Relationships - Michael BerryHaulbowline Island, Cork Harbour, Ireland, c. 1816-1832. A new archaeological perspective on Ireland's 'coloniality' - Colin RynneEnglish Industrial Landscapes - divergence, convergence and perceptions of identity - Paul BelfordHistoric Landscape Characterisation, More Than a Management Tool? - Caron NewmanThe Whitehaven coast 1500-2000 - Post-Medieval, Industrial, and Historical archaeology? - David CranstoneThe changing countryside: the impact of industrialisation on rural settlement in the 18th and 19th centuries - Richard NewmanUnderstanding landscape: inter-disciplinary dialogue and the post-medieval countryside - Chris DalglishSection Three: Of People and Things Introduction - Marilyn Palmer and Audrey HorningLancashire Cotton Mills and Power - R N HoldenMaterial concerns: the State of Post-Medieval Finds Studies - The View From Afar: International Perspectives on the Analysis of post-1750 Ceramics in Britain and Ireland - Alasdair BrooksPost-1550 urban archaeology in a developer-funded context: an example from Grand Arcade, Cambridge - Craig CessfordRematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Rupert FeatherbyRematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Nigel JeffriesRematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Alastair OwensRematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Karen WehnerRematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Dan HicksUnderneath the Arches: the afterlife of a railway viaduct - Emma Dwyer'You knew where you were:' An archaeology of working households in turn-of-century Cheshire - Eleanor CasellaPulling the Threads Together: Issues of Theory and Practice in an Archaeology of the Modern World - Stephen MrozowskiConclusion: The Way Forward? - Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer

A handsomely produced volume.