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Defining Moments: Dramatic Archaeologies of the Twentieth-Century
John Schofield
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The shape of this collection of essays has emerged over time from an original session from the Theoretical Archaeology Group conference held at Cardiff in 1999. A few years later the original theme evolved through the then fledgling Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory organisation, with its own series of books and conferences. This seemed an obvious home for 'Defining Moments' and the present volume appears after a decade-long gestation.
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Front Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright
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Studies in Contemporary and Historical Archaeology
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Table of Contents
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List of figures
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List of tables
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List of contributors
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Preface
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Chapter 1. 1115 hrs, 24 June 2008 Drama and the moment
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Chapter 2. 1230 hrs, 12 December 1901 Marconi’s first transatlantic wireless transmission
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Chapter 3. 1140 hrs, 14 April 1912 The case of the RMS TITANIC
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Chapter 4. 1 July 1916 The Battle of the Somme and the machine gun myth
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Chapter 5. 11 August 1921 ? The discovery of insulin
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Chapter 6. 2 October 1925 From Ally Pally to Big Brother: television makes viewers of us all
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Chapter 7. 1 June 1935 The introduction of compulsory testing of drivers in the United Kingdom: the neglected role of the state in motoring
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Chapter 8. Commentary: Visions of the twentieth century
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Chapter 9. 16/17 May 1943 Operation Chastise: The raid on the German dams
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Chapter 10. 1130 hrs, 29 May 1953 Because it’s there: The ascent of Everest
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Chapter 11. 2228:34 hrs (Moscow Time), 4 October 1957 The Space Age begins: The launch of Sputnik I, Earth’s first artificial satellite
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Chapter 12. 11 February 1966 Proclamation 43
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Chapter 13. March 1993 The Library of Babel: Origins of the World Wide Web
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Chapter 14. 0053 hrs, 12 October 1998 The Murder of Matthew Wayne Shepard: An archaeologist’s personal defining moment
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Chapter 15. 0000:00 hrs, 1 January 2000 ‘Three, two, one …?’ The material legacy of global Millennium celebrations
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Chapter 16. n.d. Conservation and the British
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Published: 2009
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407305813 (paperback)
- 9781407335308 (ebook)
BAR Number: S2005