Research Catalog

Title

Soldiers, cities, and landscapes : papers in honor of Charles L. Fisher / edited by Penelope Ballard Drooker and John P. Hart.

Publication

Albany, N.Y. : University of the State of New York, State Education Dept., ©2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Drooker, Penelope B.
• Hart, John P.
• Fisher, Charles, 1949-2007.
• New York State Museum.

Description

xix, 295 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

New York State Museum bulletin, 0278-3355 ; no. 513

Uniform Title

Bulletin (New York State Museum : 1976) ; no. 513.

Subject

• 1754-1783
• Archaeology and history > New York (State) > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > New York (State) > Congresses
• Historic sites > New York (State) > Congresses
• Material culture > New York (State) > Congresses
• Soldiers > New York (State) > History > Antiquities > Congresses
• Cities and towns > New York (State) > History > Antiquities > Congresses
• Landscapes > New York (State) > History > Congresses
• Farm life > New York (State) > History > Congresses
• Antiquities
• Archaeology and history
• Cities and towns > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology)
• Farm life
• Historic sites
• Landscapes
• Material culture
• New York (State) > Antiquities > Congresses
• New York (State) > History > Antiquities > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Congresses
• New York (State) > History > Antiquities > French and Indian War, 1754-1763 > Congresses
• New York (State)
• United States

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Note

• "On Saturday, December 1, 2007, the New York State Museum served as the venue for a colloquium ... This volume comprises chapters based on 16 of the colloquium presentations"--Page xvi.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.
• "Charles L. Fisher bibliography"--p. xviii.

Contents

Foreword / Charles E. Orser, Jr. -- Remembrance / Karen Hartgen -- Preface / John P. Hart -- Program for the colloquium: Soldiers, cities, and landscapes, December 1, 2007 -- Charles L. Fisher Bibliography -- Soldiers, missionaries, merchants, and natives: The Canadian journeys of Louis Franquet / James L. Hart -- The Flat site--an eighteenth-century skirmish line? / Bruce B. Sterling -- Ticonderoga: French fort construction on the eighteenth-century frontier / Elise Manning-Sterling -- An overview and interpretation of the Fort Gage excavations at Lake George, 1975 / Paul R. Huey -- A tale of two middens / William A. Griswold and Tonya B. Largy -- Distressed for the want of provisions: Supplying the British soldier on Carleton Island (1778-1784) / Douglas J. Pippin -- Hart Tyles and histories: Dutch Bible tiles in eighteenth-century New York / Leslie E. Gerhauser -- "Once adorned with quaint Dutch tiles ...": A preliminary analysis of Delft tiles found in archaeological contexts and historical collections in the Upper Hudson Valley / Walter Richard Wheeler -- Stewart Dean: The archaeology of a pilot, privateer, and entrepreneur / Matthew Kirk -- Life in the hollow and the bowery: The archaeology of Albany's working class / Tracy Shaffer Miller -- New Amsterdam: The subordination of native space / Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall -- The Sundler sites: Reconstructing the late Pleistocene landscape and its people in the capital region of New York / James W. Bradley, Meredith Younge, and Andrew Kozlowski -- Connecticut Yankees on the New York frontier: The archqeological and historical records of the Olmsted site / Kevin Moody and Adam Luscier -- Out of the frying pan and into the fire: A Revolutionary War veteran on the Northern Frontier, 1796-1846 / J. W. Bouchard -- The landscape archaeology of the agrarian myth: Tenant-to-owner transition on a nineteenth-century Adirondack farmstead / Corey McQuinn -- A local industry reflects a local community--The Watts blacksmith shop / Martin Pickands.

ISBN

• 9781555572532
• 1555572537

LCCN

2010941894

OCLC

• ocn702615766
• 702615766
• SCSB-1592729

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library