Book Reviews
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Historical Archaeology posts reviews on the SHA website at the same time that the journal issues are sent to the printers. Titles and authors of all reviews appear in the table of contents of the print edition, and review text appears online. This ensures timely reviews and frees up room in the journal for additional articles. Reviews are assigned HA page numbers, and the citation appears as follows:
Staniforth, Mark 2007 Review of An Archaeological Guide to British Ceramics in Australia, 1788-1901, by Alasdair Brooks. Historical Archaeology 41(2):163-164.
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If you are interested in reviewing a book for SHA please also contact Michael P. Roller, 2402 3rd Street, NE, Washington, D.C., 20002 [mke.roller@gmail.com]. For more information on the book review process please read our book-review guidelines.
2016
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
- Babits and Gandulla (editors): The Archaeology of French and Indian War Frontier Forts
- 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
- Gibson: Ceramic Makers’ Marks
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)