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THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF STEAMBOAT PASSENGERS
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE MISSOURI RIVER |
| By: |
Roderick Sprague (Foreword), Annalies Corbin |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£109.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0306461684 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780306461682 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA |
| Pub. date: |
31 December, 1999 |
| Edition: |
2002 ed. |
| Series: |
The Springer Series in Underwater Archaeology |
| Pages: |
237 |
| Description: |
Analyses the material culture of passengers' belongings found on the steamboats Bertrand and Arabia, which served nineteenth century emigrants traveling west on the Missouri river. This book is intended as a reference for western artifacts and for steamboats that operated on the Missouri river. |
| Synopsis: |
For many years, one of my favorite classroom devices in historical archaeology was to ask the students to imagine that they had to make the choice between saving-from some unnamed calamity-all master's theses or all doctoral disser tations in anthropology, but not both. Like good students, they usually looked to their Ph.D. holding professor and chose the dissertations. Much to their surprise, Iwouldrespondthatthetheseswould win withouteventakingtime to ponderthe issue. The issue is clearly one of often naive and rarely eloquent theses full of good primary data versus sometimes more sophisticated and better written works full of irrelevant theory and meaningless statistics. Perhaps this is an overstate ment of the situation, but it is not too far offthe mark. The University Microfilms International efforts to make the titles of disser tations in North America and the English speaking portions of Europe available through Dissertation Abstracts is commendable. With only one minor exception, dissertations in historical and underwater archaeology in the United States are to be found listed in Dissertation Abstracts and thus are available for purchase. |
| Illustrations: |
58 Illustrations, black and white; XVII, 237 p. 58 illus. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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