American Industrial Archaeology A Field Guide

Name: American Industrial Archaeology A Field Guide
Price: 89.68 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781598740998

ISBN-10: 1598740997

ISBN-13: 9781598740998

Edition: 2008

Authors: Douglas C. McVarish

List price: $54.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

2 new & used from $89.68

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

This comprehensive guide provides the reader with basic information of the most common types of structures, sites, and objects encountered in industrial archaeology. These include bridges, railroads, roads, waterways, several types of production and extraction factories, water and power generating facilities, and others. Each chapters contains a brief introduction to the technology or features of each class of installation, illustrations with characteristics that help identifying important elements of the type, and a glossary of common terms. Two chapters offer valuable guidance on researching industrial properties and landscapes. For students, avocational archaeologists, and cultural…

Book details

List price: $54.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/31/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 391
Size: 8.25" wide x 10.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

Douglas C. McVarish has been employed as an architectural historian by John Milner Associates, Inc. since 1992. He currently is Principal Architectural Historian and Associate and works in JMA's Philadelphia office. He holds a BA degree in American studies from Hampshire College, a Masters of Planning degree from the University of Virginia and a M.S. degree in historic preservation from the University of Vermont. He has surveyed and documented many industrial structures and landscapes including two slackwater navigation corridors, aluminum industry facilities of western Pennsylvania, a Maryland mine fan complex, many bridges, several electrical generating stations, a shipyard, a sanitary…



Introduction: Conceptualizing Socio-Ecological Systems




Modeling Socio-Ecological Systems: General Perspectives



Historical Ecology: Integrated Thinking at Multiple Temporal and Spatial Scales




The Human-Environment Nexus: Progress in the Past Decade in the Integrated Analysis of Human and Biophysical Factors




Toward Developing Synergistic Linkages between the Biophysical and the Cultural: A Palaeo-Environmental Perspective




Integration of World and Earth Systems: Heritage and Foresight




World-Systems as Complex Human Ecosystems




Infectious Diseases as Ecological and Historical Phenomena, with Special Reference to the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19




Toward a Comparative Study of Hegemonic Decline in Global Systems: The Complexity of Crisis and the Paradoxes of Differentiated Experience




Case Studies of Socio-Environmental Change in Prehistory



Agrarian Landscape Development in North-western Europe since the Neolithic: Cultural and Climatic Factors Behind a Regional/Continental Pattern




Climate Change in Southern and Eastern Africa during the Past Millennium and its Implications for Societal Development




World-Systems in the Biogeosphere: Urbanization, State Formation, and Climate Change since the Iron Age




Eurasian Transformations: Mobility, Ecological Change, and the Transmission of Social Institutions in the Third and Second Millennium BC




Climate, Water, and Political-Economic Crises in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt




Ages of Readjustment: Self-Organization in the World System




Lessons from Population Ecology for World-Systems Analyses of Long-Distance Synchrony




Sustainable Intensive Exploitation of Amazonia: Cultural, Environmental, and Geopolitical Perspectives




Regional Integration and Ecology in Prehistoric Amazonia: Toward a System Perspective




Are World-Systems Sustainable? Toward an Integrated Socio-Ecological Perspective



In Search of Sustainability: What Can We Learn from the Past?




No Island is an "Island": Some Perspectives on Human Ecology and Development in Oceania




Political Ecology and Sustainability Science: Opportunity and Challenge




Evidence from Societal Metabolism Studies for Ecologically Unequal Trade




Entropy Generation and Environmental Load