Industrial Archaeology: An Introduction

Industrial Archaeology: An Introduction
ISBN-10
1317598172
ISBN-13
9781317598176
Series
Industrial Archaeology
Category
Social Science
Pages
214
Language
English
Published
2014-10-30
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Kenneth Hudson

Description

Industrial archaeology is the study of early industrial buildings and machinery, particularly of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. When this book was originally published in 1963, this was becoming a topic of lively interest and controversy among archaeologists, historians, architects and engineers. This book discusses the aims and methods of the science, giving examples of the contribution which different kinds of specialists can make. This shows a fascinating slice of the history of the discipline of archaeology as well as offering insights into industrial archaeology when the term was first being used. As the first text on the subject, this book also lead to the start of the industrial archaeology movement in the USA.

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