The Archaeology of Urban Landscapes

Alan Mayne is Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Melbourne. His publications include Fever, Squalor and Vice (1982), Represent the Slum (1991), The Imagined Slum (1993) and The Reluctant Italians (1997). Tim Murray is Professor of Archaeology and Head of the School of Hisotircal and Archaeological Studies at La Trobe University. He has written, with Judy Birmingham, Historical Archaeology of Australia - A Handbook, and edited The Archaeology of Aboriginal Australia (1998), Time and Archaeology (1999), The Great Archaeologists 2 vols (1999), and (with Atholl Anderson) Australian Archaeologist (2000).

• 1. Introduction Alan Mayne and Tim Murray; Part I: 2. Slum journeys: ladies and London poverty 1860–1940 Ellen Ross; 3. Empty spaces: West Oakland, California Elaine-Maryse Solari; 4. Horstley Street, District Six Antonia Malan and Elizabeth van Heyningen; 5. New perspectives from Sydney's 'Rocks' district Grace Karskens; 6. Archaeology of Washington DC's alley life after the Civil War Barbara J. Little and Nancy J. Kassner; Part II: 7. The Sheffield Crofts, 1736–1836 Paul Belford; 8. Cultural space and worker identity in the company city Mary Beaudry and Stephen A. Mrozowski; 9. High times, low times and tourist floods Reginald Auger and William Moss; 10. Values and identity in the working class worlds of late nineteenth-century Minneapolis John P. McCarthy; 11. Imaginary landscapes Alan Mayne, Tim Murray, and Susan Lawrence; 12. New York city's five points Rebecca Yamin.

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