• The first fully authored book on a subject with a rapidly growing profile
• Provides an authoritative summary and overview of existing archaeological literature on this topic
• Case studies demonstrate how ideas are put into practice and suggest future lines of investigation

Readership: Scholars and students of archaeology, sociology, cultural studies, heritage studies, history of science and technology, anthropology, geography; professionals involved in planning and development in these areas.

Rodney Harrison, Lecturer in Heritage Studies, The Open University, and John Schofield, Member of English Heritage's Characterisation Team

"By bringing archaeology right up to date Harrison and Schofield provide an eloquent argument that the transformation of things and landscapes haunts the contemporary imagination. Their book is a must-read for the many disciplines interested in understanding the turbulent century we have recently shed. The presumption that history died in 1989 is here matched by the birth of a new understanding of the past; one that is altogether more interesting because it is tangible and entrancing." - Clive Gamble, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London

1: Introduction
1. Surveying the field: the development of an archaeology of the recent and contemporary past
2: A disciplinary (pre)history
3: Field methods
4: Working across disciplines
5: Theory and politics
2. Archaeological approaches to late modern societies
6: Artefacts
7: Sites
8: Landscapes
9: Non-places and virtual worlds
10: Conclusions