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Contents 
The Interpretation of Artifacts 
in the History of Technology 74 
Robert B. Gordon 
Gardens and Society in 
Eighteenth-Century England 94 
Thomas Williamson 
Common Landscapes 
as Historic Documents 115 
Peirce Lewis 
The New England Cemetery 
as a Cultural Landscape 140 
[an W. Brown 
Artifacts as Expressions of Society 
and Culture: Subversive Genealogy 
and the Value of History 160 
Mark P. Leone and Barbara J. Little 
Why Take a Behavioral Approach 
to Folk Objects? 182 
Michael Owen Jones 
Machine Politics: 
The Political Construction 
of Technological Artifacts 197 
Steven Lubar 
Technological Systems and Some Implications 
with Regard to Continuity and Change 215 
W. David Kingery 
Replication Techniques in 
Eastern Zhou Bronze Casting 231 
Robert W. Bagley