Shovel ready [[electronic resource] ] : archaeology and Roosevelt's New Deal for America / / edited by Bernard K. Means

• Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Disciplina: 930.1
• Soggetto topico: Archaeology and state - United States - History - 20th century; Archaeology - United States - History - 20th century; Historic preservation - United States - History - 20th century; New Deal, 1933-1939
• Altri autori: MeansBernard K <1964-> (Bernard Klaus)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : "alphabet soup" and American archaeology / Brnard K. Means -- The first stimulus package : the WPA and the New Jersey Indian Site Survey / Gregory D. Lattanzi -- Historical archaeology's "New Deal" in Pennsylvania / Janet R. Johnson -- Archaeologist #.00000000000000000 : Edgar E. Augustine and New Deal excavations in the Great Depression begets a great expansion : field museum anthropology, 1929-1941 / Stephen E. Nash -- Project 1047 : New Deal archaeology in Iowa / John F. Doershuk and John L. Cordell -- The last of WPA archaeology in Oklahoma : the Clement and McDonald sites / Amanda L. Regnier, Patrick C. Livingood, and Scott W. Hammerstedt -- Trouble in the glen : the battle over Kentucky Lake archaeology / David H. Dye -- WPA archaeology at the Slayden Site, Humphreys County, Tennessee / Anna R. Lunn -- Culture, time, and practice : the shifting interpretive potential of New Deal era collections / Sissel Schroeder -- New Deal archaeology in west-central Kentucky : excavations at Annis Village / Scott W. Hammerstedt -- Preston Holder's WPA excavations in Glynn and Chatham counties, Georgia -- 1936-1938 / Kevin Kiernan -- The Resettlement Administration and the historical archaeology of the Georgia Piedmont / James R. Wettstaed -- Conclusion : shovels at the ready : work relief and American archaeology, today and tomorrow / Bernard K. Means.
• Sommario/riassunto: Shovel Ready provides a comprehensive lens through which to view the New Deal period, a fascinating and prolific time in American archaeology. In this collection of diverse essays united by a common theme, Bernard K. Means and his contributors deliver a valuable research tool for practicing archaeologists and historians of archaeology, as well as New Deal scholars in general. To rescue Americans from economic misery and the depths of despair during the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created several New De
• Titolo autorizzato: Shovel ready
• ISBN: 0-8173-8625-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910826586203321
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