Jefferson's Poplar Forest
Subtitle: unearthing a Virginia plantation
By: edited by Barbara J. Heath and Jack Gary
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780813039886
Subjects: Social life and customs; Material culture; Antiquities; Plantation life; Homes and haunts; Archaeology and history; Excavations (Archaeology); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Two Tracts of Land at the Poplar Forest" : A Historical and Archaeological Overview of Thomas Jefferson's Plantation Retreat / Barbara J. Heath and Jack Gary; title: A Brief History of Plantation Archaeology in Virginia / Barbara J. Heath; title: Seasons of Change : Community Life and Landscape at the Foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 1740-1860 / Eric Proebsting; title: A Landscape for Mr. Jefferson's Retreat / Timothy Trussell; title: Ceramics and Jefferson's Aesthetic Philosophy / Jack Gary; title: Slave Housing, Community Formation, and Community Dynamics at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest, 1760s-1810s . Barbara J. Heath; title: Carved in Stone : Stone Smoking Pipes at Historic Sites in Central Virginia / Lori Lee; title: Social Dimensions of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Slaves' Uses of Plants at Poplar Forest / Jessica Bowes and Heather Trigg; title: Consumerism, Social Relations, and Antebellum Slavery at Poplar Forest / Lori Lee; title: Founding Families : Reflections on the Archaeology of Poplar Forest / Stephen A. Mrozowski.