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Defining moments : dramatic archaeologies of the twentieth-century
Title
Defining moments : dramatic archaeologies of the twentieth-century / edited by John Schofield.
ISBN
9781407305813 (pbk.)
1407305816
Published
Oxford : Archaeopress, 2009.
Physical Description
ix, 164 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 04, 2009
Series
BAR international series ; 2005
Studies in contemporary and historical archaeology ; 5
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Drama and the moment / John Schofield
Marconie's first transatlantic wireless message / Cassie Newland
The case of the RMS Titanic / David Miles
The Battle of the Somme and the machine gun myth / Paul Cornish
The discovery of insulin / E.M. Tansey
From Ally Pally to Big Brother: television makes viewers of us all / Martin Brown
The introduction of compulsory driving tests in the United Kingdom: the neglected role of the state in motoring / John Beech
Commentary: visions of the twentieth century / Cornelius Holtorf
Operation Chastise: the raid on the German dams / Richard Morris
Because it's there: the ascent of Everest / Paul Graves-Brown
The Space Age begins: the launch of Sputnik I, Earth's first artificial satellite / Greg Fewer
Proclamation 43 / Martin Hall
The Library of Babel: origins of the World Wide Web / Paul Graves-Brown
The murder of Matthew Wayne Shepard: an archaeologist's personal defining moment / Thomas Dowson
"Three, two, one...?": the material legacy of global millennium celebrations / Rodney Harrison
Conservation and the British / Graham Fairclough.
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