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Across North America, Archaeology, Urban, and Sociology — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as America’s Ancient Cities by Gene S. Stuart.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Cathay by the Bay Glimpses of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the Year 1950 — George Kao

Cathay by the Bay Glimpses of San Francisco’s Chinatown in the Year 1950

Themes: North America • Urban • Sociology

Why Walls Won’t Work Repairing the US-Mexico Divide — Michael Dear

Why Walls Won’t Work Repairing the US-Mexico Divide

Themes: North America • Urban • Sociology

Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia — Karel Nováček

Medieval Urban Landscape in Northeastern Mesopotamia

Karel Nováček

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Gloucestershire 300 Years Ago — Alan Pilbeam

Gloucestershire 300 Years Ago

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Cities in the Pre-modern Islamic World The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society — Amira K. Bennison

Cities in the Pre-modern Islamic World The Urban Impact of Religion, State and Society

Amira K. Bennison

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Early New World Monumentality — Richard L. Burger

Early New World Monumentality

Richard L. Burger

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Life and Death in the Roman Suburb — Allison L. C. Emmerson

Life and Death in the Roman Suburb

Allison L. C. Emmerson

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

The Roman Street Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome — Jeremy Hartnett

The Roman Street Urban Life and Society in Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Rome

Jeremy Hartnett

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Yakuza Japan’s Criminal Underworld — David E. Kaplan

Yakuza Japan’s Criminal Underworld

David E. Kaplan

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Cities The First 6,000 Years — Monica Louise Smith

Cities The First 6,000 Years

Monica Louise Smith

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Teetering on the Rim Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State — Lesley Gill

Teetering on the Rim Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

The Impact of the Railways in the East End, 1835-2010 Historical Archaeology from the London Overground East London Line — Emma Dwyer

The Impact of the Railways in the East End, 1835-2010 Historical Archaeology from the London Overground East London Line

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal Civitates Hispaniae of the Early Empire — Pieter Houten

Urbanisation in Roman Spain and Portugal Civitates Hispaniae of the Early Empire

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Reading Medieval Ruins Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan — Morgan Pitelka

Reading Medieval Ruins Urban Life and Destruction in Sixteenth-Century Japan

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

City of Walls Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo — Teresa P. R. Caldeira

City of Walls Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo

Teresa P. R. Caldeira

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Child Labor and the Urban Third World Toward a New Understanding of the Problem — Subrata Sankar Bagchi

Child Labor and the Urban Third World Toward a New Understanding of the Problem

Subrata Sankar Bagchi

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Fighting to Breathe Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore — Nicole Fabricant

Fighting to Breathe Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore

Nicole Fabricant

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

A History of the Greek City — Alexandros Ph Lagopoulos

A History of the Greek City

Alexandros Ph Lagopoulos

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Deep Mapping the Media City — Shannon Christine Mattern

Deep Mapping the Media City

Shannon Christine Mattern

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies — Linda Manzanilla

Emergence and Change in Early Urban Societies

Linda Manzanilla

Themes: Archaeology • Urban • Sociology

Stone Prayers Native American Stone Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard — Curtiss Hoffman

Stone Prayers Native American Stone Constructions of the Eastern Seaboard

Curtiss Hoffman

Themes: North America • Archaeology • Social Science

The Suppressed History of America The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition — Paul Schrag

The Suppressed History of America The Murder of Meriwether Lewis and the Mysterious Discoveries of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Themes: North America • Archaeology • Social Science

Secret Voyages to the New World — Gunnar Thompson

Secret Voyages to the New World

Gunnar Thompson

Themes: North America • Archaeology • Social Science

Principles of Geoarchaeology A North American Perspective — Michael R. Waters

Principles of Geoarchaeology A North American Perspective

Michael R. Waters

Themes: North America • Archaeology • Social Science

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with America’s Ancient Cities by Gene S. Stuart. Connected by North America, Archaeology, Urban. Authors featured include George Kao, Michael Dear, Karel Nováček, Alan Pilbeam, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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