Exploring the Archaeology of the Modern City in Nineteenth-century Australia

• Main Authors: Murray, Tim (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Crook, Penny (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology,
• Subjects: Archaeology.

This book presents research into the urban archaeology of 19th-century Australia. It focuses on the detailed archaeology of 20 cesspits in The Rocks area of Sydney and the Commonwealth Block site in Melbourne. It also includes discussions of a significant site in Sydney - First Government House. The...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Exploring the archaeology of the modern city: Sydney and Melbourne compared
• Chapter 2: Transnational archaeologies: colonial and post colonial
• Chapter 3:Immigration to Australia, 1820-1900
• Chapter 4: Archaeology at First Government House and the Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
• Chapter 5: Global material culture in the modern city
• Chapter 6: Sanitary reform and comparative assemblage analysis: methodology
• Chapter 7: The Cumberland and Gloucester Streets site, The Rocks, Sydney
• Chapter 8: The Little Lon site in Melbourne
• Chapter 9: Comparing the McNamaras: domestic life in two cities at the edge of the world
• Chapter 10: Local and global lessons from 20 cesspits from the other side of the world.