A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World

by Charles E. Orser Jr.

Book Overview

This unique book offers a theoretical framework for historical archaeology that explicitly relies on network theory. Charles E. Orser, Jr., demonstrates the need to examine the impact of colonialism, Eurocentrism, capitalism, and modernity on all archaeological sites inhabited after 1492 and shows how these large-scale forces create a link among all the sites. Orser investigates the connections between a seventeenth-century runaway slave kingdom in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306451735
• ISBN13: 9780306451737
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"