Brings together over thirty of the leading scholars in Post Medieval archaeology and examines how this relatively new discipline has developed and where it is going.

Audrey Horning, Marilyn Palmer

Foreword
Introduction - Audrey Horning
Introduction From crossing paths to sharing tracks - Marilyn Palmer
Section One Introduction: Of Practice and Paradigm - Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer
The Dialectics of Scale in the Historical Archaeology of the Modern World - Charles E. Orser
An amorphous farrago? The Contribution of Industrial Archaeology - David Gwyn
People versus machines or People and Machines? Current Research Directions within British Post-medieval and Industrial ArchaeologyIndustrial Archaeology - Mike Nevell
A Review of the Archaeological Contribution to the understanding of the Industrial Past - Shane Gould
Twenty years a'growing: University-based Teaching & Research of Historical Archaeology on the island of Ireland - Colin Breen
Irish 'post-medieval' archaeology: time to lose our innocence? - Tadhg O'Keeffe
Encouraging interest in the recent past - Tony Crosby
Post-Medieval Archaeology: a personal perspective - Paul Courtney
An Archaeological Avant-Garde - James Dixon
Section Two: Analytical Approaches Introduction - Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer
Science for historic industries - glass and glassworking - Sarah Paynter and David Dungworth and Justine Bayley
Bones of contention: why later post-medieval faunal assemblages in Britain matter - Richard Thomas
Finds, Deposits, and Assigned Status: New Approaches to Defined Relationships - Michael Berry
Haulbowline Island, Cork Harbour, Ireland, c. 1816-1832. A new archaeological perspective on Ireland's 'coloniality' - Colin Rynne
English Industrial Landscapes - divergence, convergence and perceptions of identity - Paul Belford
Historic Landscape Characterisation, More Than a Management Tool? - Caron Newman
The Whitehaven coast 1500-2000 - Post-Medieval, Industrial, and Historical archaeology? - David Cranstone
The changing countryside: the impact of industrialisation on rural settlement in the 18th and 19th centuries - Richard Newman
Understanding landscape: inter-disciplinary dialogue and the post-medieval countryside - Chris Dalglish
Section Three: Of People and Things Introduction - Marilyn Palmer and Audrey Horning
Lancashire Cotton Mills and Power - R N Holden
Material concerns: the State of Post-Medieval Finds Studies -
The View From Afar: International Perspectives on the Analysis of post-1750 Ceramics in Britain and Ireland - Alasdair Brooks
Post-1550 urban archaeology in a developer-funded context: an example from Grand Arcade, Cambridge - Craig Cessford
Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Rupert Featherby
Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Nigel Jeffries
Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Alastair Owens
Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Karen Wehner
Rematerialising Metropolitan Histories? People, places and things in modern London - Dan Hicks
Underneath the Arches: the afterlife of a railway viaduct - Emma Dwyer
'You knew where you were:' An archaeology of working households in turn-of-century Cheshire - Eleanor Casella
Pulling the Threads Together: Issues of Theory and Practice in an Archaeology of the Modern World - Stephen Mrozowski
Conclusion: The Way Forward? - Audrey Horning and Marilyn Palmer