Book Reviews

 

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2016

Book Reviews 50(4)

2016

Book Reviews 50(2)

• The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century ALASDAIR BROOKS (EDITOR)
  Paul R. Mullins
• Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation PAUL CORNISH AND NICHOLAS J. SAUNDERS (EDITORS)
  Richard G. Ervin
• Beyond the Walls: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Historical Households KEVIN R. FOGLE, JAMES A. NYMAN, AND MARY C. BEAUDRY (EDITORS)
  Thomas Wheeler
• Consumerism and the Emergence of the Middle Class in Colonial America CHRISTINA J. HODGE
  Richard Veit
• Landscape Biographies: Geographical, Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on the Production and Transmission of Landscapes JAN KOLEN, HANS RENES, AND RITA HERMANS (EDITORS)
  Thomas w. Gallant
• Sobre Campos De Batalla: Arqueología de Conflictos Bélicos en América Latina CARLOS LANDA AND ODLANYER HERNÁNDEZ DE LARA (EDITORS)
  Jorge Provenzali
• Ancestors of Worthy Life: Plantation Slavery and Black Heritage at Mount Clare TERESA S. MOYER
  Julie H. Ernstein
• Power in Stone: Cities as Symbols of Empire GEOFFREY PARKER
  Brian Wilson
• Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook, 2nd edition PRUDENCE M. RICE
  Linda R. Pomper
• A Desolate Place for a Defiant People: The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp DANIEL O. SAYER
  Michael T. Lucas
• Historical Archaeology and the Importance of Material Things II JULIE M. SCHABLITSKY AND MARK P. LEONE (EDITORS
  Christopher P. Barton
• Historical Archaeology in South Africa: Material Culture of the Dutch East India Company at the Cape CARMEL SCHRIRE (EDITOR)
  Sean Hamilton Reid
• Between the Devil and the Deep: Meeting Challenges in the Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Heritage DELLA A. SCOTT-IRETON (EDITOR)
  Daniel Hughes
• Historical Archaeology of the Chesapeake PAUL A. SHACKEL AND BARBARA J. LITTLE (EDITORS)
  Jason Shellenhamer
• Beastly Questions: Animal Answers to Archaeological Issues NAOMI SYKES
  Adam R. Heinrich
• Historic Preservation: Caring for Our Expanding Legacy MICHAEL A. TOMLAN
  Ian Burrow
• The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis: Race and Sexuality in Colonial San Francisco, revised edition BARBARA L. VOSS
  Kelly J. Dixon
• The Wreck of the America in Southern Illinois: A Flatboat on the Ohio River MARK J. WAGNER
• Connecticut Unscathed: Victory in the Great Narragansett War 1675–1676 JASON W. WARREN
  Jenn Ogborne
• Field Archaeologist’s Survival Guide: Getting a Job and Working in Cultural Resource Management CHRIS WEBSTE
  Lyle C. Torp

2015

Book Reviews 49(4)

• Arcangeli: Sherds of History: Domestic Life in Colonial Guadeloupe
  Hayden F. Bassett
• Aygen: International Heritage and Historic Building Conservation: Saving the World’s Past
  Sophie Roark
• Baugher and Veit: The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers
  Gaynell Stone (posted soon)
• Bêty and Fortier: L’îlot des Palais: Chantier-école de l’Universit é Laval, saison 2007
  Pelletier, Parent, and Beaudry: L’îlot des Palais: Chantier- école de l’Université Laval, saison 2008
  Alasdair Brooks
• Breen: Dunluce Castle: History and Archaeology
  Scott D. Stull
• Card (editor): The Archaeology of Hybrid Material Culture
  David Tutchener
• Crossland: Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar: Material Signs and Traces of the Dead
  Michael T. Lucas
• Day (editor): Making Senses of the Past: Toward a Sensory Archaeology
  Lewis C. Jones
• Matthews and McGovern (editors): The Archaeology of Race in the Northeast
  Michael J. Gall
• Spencer-Wood (editor): Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Gender Transformations: From Public to Private
  Christina J. Hodge

Book Reviews 49(2)

• The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg (2013)
  Cary Carson and Carl R. Lounsbury (Editors)
• Lima Subterránea: Arqueología Histórica: Criptas, Bóvedas, Canales Virreinales y Republicanos (2014)
  Richard Chuhue and Pieter Van Dalen (Editors)
• Supplying Custer: The Powder River Supply Depot, 1876 (2012)
  Gerald R. Clark
• An Archaeology of Institutional Confinement: The Hyde Park Barracks, 1848–1886 (2013)
  Peter Davies, Penny Crook, and Tim Murray
• The Colonial Caribbean: Landscapes of Power in the Plantation System (2014)
  James A. Delle
• Medieval Haywharf to 20th-Century Brewery: Excavations at Watermark Place, City of London (2015)
  Louise Fowler and Anthony Mackinder
• First Manhattans: A History of the Indians of Greater New York (2011)
  Robert S. Grumet
• Ruin Memories: Materialities, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past (2014)
  Bjonar Olsen AND Þora Petursdottir (Editors)
• The Archaeology of American Cities (2014)
  Nan A. Rothschild and Diana Dizerega Wall
• The Legacy of Fort William Henry: Resurrecting the Past (2014)
  Davis R. StarbuckK
• Corporate Responsibility for Cultural Heritage: Conservation, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Reputation (2013)
  Fiona Starr

2014

• Book Reviews 48(2) (PDF)
  • Babits and Gandulla (editors): The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts
    Kate Egner Gruber
  • Browman: Cultural Negotiations: The Role of Women in the Founding of Americanist Archaeology
    Kristen R. Fellows
  • Cipolla: Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World
    Marshall Joseph Becker
  • Dalglish (editor): Archaeology, the Public and the Recent Past
    Helen Keremedjiev
  • Haendel (editor): Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia
    Alasdair Brooks
  • Hayes: Slavery Before Race: Europeans, Africans, and Indians at Long Island’s Sylvester Manor Plantation, 1651–1884
    Gaynell Stone
  • Hubka: Houses without Names: Architectural Nomenclature and the Classification of America’s Common Houses.
    Hayden F. Bassett
  • Kelso (editor): Archaeology of Early European Colonial Settlement in the Emerging Atlantic World.
    Shannon Dunn
  • Knappett (editor): Network Analysis in Archaeology: New Approaches to Regional Interaction
    Jamieson-Lee Scott
  • Morin: The Legacy of American Copper Smelting: Industrial Heritage versus Environmental Policy
    Maclaren North
  • Posnansky: Africa and Archaeology: Empowering an Expatriate Life
    Joanna Behrens
  • Piker: The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America
    Chris Espenshade
  • Richards and Seeb (editors): The Archaeology of Watercraft Abandonment
    Ronald Grayson
  • Rothschild: New York City Neighborhoods: The 18th Century
    Scott D. Stull
  • Staniforth (editor): Historical Perspectives on Preventive Conservation
    Owen W. Sutton
  • Sullivan and Mackay (editors): Archaeological Sites: Conservation and Management
    John M. Chenoweth
• Book Reviews 48(4) (PDF)
  • Gibson: Ceramic Makers’ Marks
    Thomas E. Beaman, Jr.
  • Geier, Scott, and Babits (editors): From These Honored Dead: Historical Archaeology of the American Civil War
    Drew A. Gruber
  • Horning: Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic
    James G. Gibb
  • Lyttleton: The Jacobean Plantations in Seventeenth-Century Offaly: An Archaeology of a Changing World
    Luke J. Pecoraro
  • Mathers, Mitchem, and Haecker (editors): Native and Spanish New Worlds: Sixteenth-Century Entradas in the American Southwest and Southeast
    Tsim D. Schneider

  • Means (editor): Shovel Ready: Archaeology and Roosevelt’s New Deal for America
    David Gerald Orr

  • Mehler (editor): Historical Archaeology in Central Europe
    Craig Lukezic
  • Mitchell-Cook: A Sea of Misadventures: Shipwreck and Survival in Early America
    Heather Hatch
  • Murray: American Anthropology & Company: Historical Explorations
    Tom Flanigan
  • Peres (editor): Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology
    T. Cregg Madrigal
  • Pope (editor) with Lewis-Simpson: Exploring Atlantic Transitions: Archaeologies of Transience and Permanence in New Found Lands
    Lynn L.M. Evans
  • Rice: Space-Time Perspectives on Early Colonial Moquegua
    S. Piddock
  • Stojanowski: Mission Cemeteries, Mission Peoples: Historical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Intracemetery Bioarchaeology in Spanish Florida
    Elizabeth Terese Newman
  • Thompson and Thomas (editors): Life among the Tides: Recent Archaeology on the Georgia Bight
    Tsim D. Schneider
  • Wetherington and Levine (editors): Battles and Massacres on the Southwestern Frontier: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives
    Smoke Pfeiffer

2013

• Book Reviews 47(2) (PDF)
• Book Reviews 47(4) (PDF)

2012

• Reviews 46(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 46(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 46(4) (PDF)

2011

• Reviews 45(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 45(4) (PDF)

2010

• Reviews 44(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 44(4) (PDF)

2009

• Table of Contents 43(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 43(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 43(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 43(4) (PDF)

2008

• Table of Contents 42(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 42(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 42(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 42(4) (PDF File)

2007

• Table of Contents 41(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 41(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 41(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 41(4) (PDF)

2006

• Table of Contents 40(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 40(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 40(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 40(4) (PDF)

2005

• Table of Contents 39(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 39(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 39(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 39(4) (PDF)

2004

• Table of Contents 38(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 38(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 38(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 38(4) (PDF)

2003

• Table of Contents 37(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 37(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 37(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 37(4) (PDF)

2002

• Table of Contents 36(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 36(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 36(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 36(4) (PDF)

2001

• Table of Contents 35(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 35(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 35(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 35(4) (PDF)

2000

• Table of Contents 34(2) (PDF)
• Reviews 34(2) (PDF)
• Table of Contents 34(4) (PDF)
• Reviews 34(4) (PDF)