Tales of Gotham, historical archaeology, ethnohistory and microhistory of New York City /

Tales of Gotham, historical archaeology, ethnohistory and microhistory of New York City /

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Imprint:New York ; London : Springer, 2013.
Description:1 online resource (xx, 369 p.) : ill. (some col.), maps
Language:English
Subject:
Excavations (Archaeology) -- New York (State) -- New York.
New York (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (N.Y.) -- Antiquities.
New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.
New York (State) -- New York.
Biography.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9849701
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Other authors / contributors:Janowitz, Meta F.
Dallal, Diane.
ISBN:9781461452720 (electronic bk.)
1461452724 (electronic bk.)
9781461452713
1461452716
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Summary:Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham is a collection of narratives about people who lived in New York City during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, people whose lives archaeologists have encountered during excavations at sites where these people lived or worked. The stories are ethnohistorical or microhistorical studies created using archaeological and documentary data. As microhistories, they are concerned with particular people living at particular times in the past within the framework of world events. The world events framework will be provided in short introductions to chapters grouped by time periods and themes. The foreword by Mary Beaudry and the afterword by LuAnne DeCunzo bookend the individual case studies and add theoretical weight to the volume. Topics in the book include:· Native Americans and Europeans in New Amsterdam · Stories of Dutch women in the colonial period· African history in New York City, including the African Burial Ground· Craftsmen and Churchmen of New York City· A portrait of Stephen Allen, a New York City Mayor Historical Archaeology and Ethnohistory of New York City: Tales and Microhistory of Gotham focuses on specific individual life stories, or stories of groups of people, as a way to present archaeological theory and research. Archaeologists work with material culture--artifacts--to recreate daily lives and study how culture works; this book is an example of how to do this in a way that can attract people interested in history as well as in anthropological theory. As such, this volume is an invaluable resource for archaeologists, historians, ethnographers, anthropologists, and anybody interested in the rich history of one of the world's most influential cities, New York City.
Other form:Print version: Tales of Gotham, historical archaeology, ethnohistory and microhistory of New York City. New York ; London : Springer, 2012 9781461452713
Table of Contents:
  • New Amsterdam: Americans and Europeans
  • New Amsterdam: Americans and Europeans, Historical Background / Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal
  • Penhawitz and Wampage and the Seventeenth-Century World They Dominated / Anne-Marie Cantwell
  • A Manhattan Hortus Medicus?: Healing Herbs in Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam / Richard G. Schaefer
  • Dutch Women in an English Colony
  • Dutch Women in an English Colony, Historical Background / Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal
  • Sara Roelofse, Matron of New Amsterdam / Meta F. Janowitz
  • Maria and Alida: Two Dutch Women in the English Hudson Valley / Nan A. Rothschild
  • Ann Elizabeth Staats Schuyler, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Who Helped Shape Manhattan / Joan H. Geismar Ph.D.
  • Africans in New York
  • Africans in New York, Historical Background / Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal
  • The African Burial Ground in the Age of Revolution: A Landscape in Transition / Cheryl Janifer LaRoche Ph.D.
  • HW: Epitaph for a Working Man / Jean Howson
  • Finding Pinkster: The Ethnoarchaeology of Dancing in the Street / Kate Tarlow Morgan
  • Merchants, Craftsmen, and Working Men
  • Merchants Craftsmen and Working Men, Historical Background / Meta F. Janowitz, Diane Dallal
  • The Van Voorhis Family: Artisans in Post-Colonial New York City / Diana diZerega Wall
  • John Zuricher, Stone Cutter, and His Imprint on the Religious Landscape of Colonial New York / Sherene Baugher, Richard F. Veit
  • Wiert Valentine: Cartman of New York City Politics, Food and Drink in Early Republican New York / Charles D. Cheek
  • Evidence of Public Celebrations and Feasting: Politics and Agency in Late Eighteenth-Early Nineteenth Century New York / Marie-Lorraine Pipes
  • Place and Memory on the City Streets: The Revolutionary War Childhood of New York's Artisan-Mayor, Stephen Allen / Wendy E. Harris
  • Public Life, Personal Grief: The Contrasting Existence of a Nineteenth Century New York Family / Elizabeth D. Meade, Rebecca L. White
  • Anthony Van Arsdale Winans: New York Merchant, and His Daughter--The Canary of Lago Maggiore / Diane Dallal.

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