Social approaches to an industrial past : the archaeology and anthropology of mining / edited by A. Bernard Knapp, Vincent C. Pigott and Eugenia W. Herbert.

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 c...

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