by Katharine Greider · PublicAffairs,U.S. · tapa dura · ISBN 9781586487126
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«The Archaeology of Home» is Katharine Greider's essay on urban history and memory, published by PublicAffairs in hardcover (352 pages, English).
Faced with the threat of her house collapsing in New York's Lower East Side, Katharine Greider investigates the past of 239 East 7th Street. The inquiry ranges from the original salt marsh and first settlers to waves of immigrants, becoming a reflection on permanence, migration, and the meaning of home.
First edition published on March 22, 2011. Full title: The Archaeology of Home: An Epic Set on a Thousand Square Feet of the Lower East Side.
For readers of urban history, personal memoirs, and chronicles of New York.
