ABSTRACT
Social Approaches to an Industrial Past addresses the social issues of mining communities in research spanning a period of 4,500 years. The volume considers themes which are relatively new to archaeology:
* the social context of production
* gender
* power and labour exploitation
* imperialism and colonialism
* production and technology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part I Historical archaeology
chapter 7|12 pages
Mining, colonialism and culture contact
European miners and the indigenous population in the sixteenth-century Arctic
part |2 pages
Part II Anthropology and social history
chapter 8|15 pages
‘Find the ekijunjumira’
Iron mine discovery, ownership and power among the Toro of Uganda
chapter 11|15 pages
Silver shackles and copper collars
Race, class and labor In the Arizona mining industry from the eighteenth century until World War II
part |2 pages
Part III Prehistory and protohistory
chapter 15|17 pages
Exploiting the desert frontier
The logistics and politics of ancient Egyptian mining expeditions
part |2 pages
Part IV Overviews
