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African American
Author_Adam D. Fracchia
Author_Patricia M. Samford
Baltimore
Baltimore Center for Urban Archaeology
Breweries
butchers
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Category=NHK
Category=NKD
Chesapeake archaeology
Chesapeake Bay
cities
cultural demographics
Deindustrialization
demographics
enslaved people
environment
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eq_history
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eq_society-politics
food production
foodways
Free Black
grocers
Heritage
Historical Archaeology
industrial
Industrialization
infrastructure
markets
Maryland
material record
mercantile
microhistory
modern capitalism
pottery
rowhouse
sugar refineries
taverns
twentieth century
Urban Archaeology
urban renewal
urbanization
Product details
- ISBN 9780813069678
- Weight: 251g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 23 May 2023
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The first synthesis of the archaeological heritage of Baltimore
Below Baltimore provides the first detailed overview of the rich archaeological heritage of the people and city of Baltimore. Drawing on a combined five decades of experience in the Chesapeake region and compiling 70 years of published and unpublished records, Adam Fracchia and Patricia Samford explore the layers of the city’s material record from the late seventeenth century to the recent past.
Fracchia and Samford focus on major themes and movements such as Baltimore’s growth into a mercantile port city, the city’s diverse immigrant populations and the history of their foodways, and the ways industries—including railroads, glass factories, sugar refineries, and breweries—structured the city’s landscape. Using insights from artifacts and the built environment, they detail individual lives and experiences within different historical periods and show how the city has changed over time.
Synthesizing a large amount of information that has never before been gathered in one place, Below Baltimore demonstrates how urban archaeology can approach cities as larger collective artifacts of the past, where excavations can uncover patterns of inequality in urbanization and industrialization that connect to social and economic processes still at work today.
Below Baltimore provides the first detailed overview of the rich archaeological heritage of the people and city of Baltimore. Drawing on a combined five decades of experience in the Chesapeake region and compiling 70 years of published and unpublished records, Adam Fracchia and Patricia Samford explore the layers of the city’s material record from the late seventeenth century to the recent past.
Fracchia and Samford focus on major themes and movements such as Baltimore’s growth into a mercantile port city, the city’s diverse immigrant populations and the history of their foodways, and the ways industries—including railroads, glass factories, sugar refineries, and breweries—structured the city’s landscape. Using insights from artifacts and the built environment, they detail individual lives and experiences within different historical periods and show how the city has changed over time.
Synthesizing a large amount of information that has never before been gathered in one place, Below Baltimore demonstrates how urban archaeology can approach cities as larger collective artifacts of the past, where excavations can uncover patterns of inequality in urbanization and industrialization that connect to social and economic processes still at work today.
Adam D. Fracchia is assistant research professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park, and research associate with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
Patricia M. Samford is director of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum and has previously worked at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and North Carolina State Historic Sites.
Patricia M. Samford is director of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory at Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum and has previously worked at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and North Carolina State Historic Sites.
