TY  - BOOK
AU  - Little,Barbara J.
TI  - Historical archaeology: why the past matters 
SN  - 1598740229
AV  - CC77.H5 L58 2007
U1  - 930.1 22
PY  - 2007///]
CY  - Walnut Creek, Calif.
PB  - Left Coast Press
KW  - Archaeology and history
KW  - Historic sites
KW  - Excavations (Archaeology)
KW  - Archaeology
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Methodology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198) and index; Do history and historical archaeology matter? -- Section 1: What are our ambitions? The goals of historical archaeology -- Preserving and interpreting sites -- Rewriting documentary history -- Reconstructing ways of life -- Improving archaeological methods -- Understanding modernization and globalization -- Section 2: What do we care about? A questioning attitude -- Defining our topics -- Colonialism, capitalism, and slavery -- What is our evidence? -- Ideology, ambiguity, and muted groups -- Ethical considerations -- Section 3: A windshield survey of historical archaeology. Introduction to a windshield survey of historical archaeology -- The survival of the English colony at Jamestown -- Mission San Luis de Talimali -- Enclosure of the English countryside -- Capitalism, the Georgian order, and a woman -- Australia's convict past -- African American life -- The machine in the garden -- The inner-city working class -- Garbage and garbage-in-waiting -- Section 4: Historical archaeology as public scholarship. Introduction to public archaeology -- Public memory and public places -- Education and outreach -- What about the painful past? -- History and the culture wars -- Civic renewal and restorative justice -- Transformative learning -- Some closing thoughts
ER  -