Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

This new edition of Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism shows where the study of capitalism leads archaeologists, scholars and activists. Essays cover a range of geographic, colonial and racist contexts around the Atlantic basin: Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, the North Atlantic, Europe and Africa. Here historical archaeologists use current capitalist theory to show the results of creating social classes, employing racism and beginning and expanding the global processes of resource exploitation. Scholars in this volume also do not avoid the present condition of people, discussing the lasting effects of capitalism's methods, resistance to them, their archaeology and their point to us now.Chapters interpret capitalism in the past, the processes that make capitalist expansion possible, and the worldwide sale and reduction of people. Authors discuss how to record and interpret these. This book continues a global historical archaeology, one that is engaged with other disciplines, peoples and suppressed political and economic histories. Authors in this volume describe how new identities are created, reshaped and made to appear natural.Chapters in this second edition also continue to address why historical archaeologists study capitalism and the relevance of this work, expanding on one of the important contributions of historical archaeologies of capitalism: critical archaeology.

This new edition of Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism shows where the study of capitalism leads archaeologists, scholars and activists. Essays cover a range of geographic, colonial and racist contexts around the Atlantic basin: Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, the North Atlantic, Europe and Africa. Here historical archaeologists use current capitalist theory to show the results of creating social classes, employing racism and beginning and expanding the global processes of resource exploitation. Scholars in this volume also do not avoid the present condition of people, discussing the lasting effects of capitalism’s methods, resistance to them, their archaeology and their point to us now.Chapters interpret capitalism in the past, the processes that make capitalist expansion possible, and the worldwide sale and reduction of people. Authors discuss how to record and interpret these. This book continues a global historical archaeology, one that is engaged with other disciplines, peoples and suppressed political and economic histories. Authors in this volume describe how new identities are created, reshaped and made to appear natural.Chapters in this second edition also continue to address why historical archaeologists study capitalism and the relevance of this work, expanding on one of the important contributions of historical archaeologies of capitalism: critical archaeology.

IntroductionsChapter 1. Jocelyn E. Knauf- Where Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism Are? Chapter 2. Alison Wylie (from 1999 edition) - Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism? The Logic of Question and Answer and the Challenge of Systemic Analysis. Chapter 3. Mark P. Leone - “How Can there be No History?”North AmericaChapter 4. Jocelyn E. Knauf - What does Womanhood have to do with Capitalism?: Normalized domesticity and gender differentiation in Annapolis, MD, 1870-1930Chapter 5. Michael P. Roller - Agamben’s “State of Exception” and the Lattimer Massacre: historical archaeology of violence and capital in the 20th Century.Chapter 6. Adam Fracchia and Stephen A. Brighton - Crushed Limestone and Ironstone: Labor Relations and Industry in a Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Quarry TownChapter 7. Amanda Tang - The Invention of Race on American Plantations: Food Remains from the Wye House Slave Quarters on Maryland's Eastern ShoreChapter 8. Stacey Lynn Camp and Laura Ng - An Archaeological Examination of Economic Networks at Japanese American Internment CampsChapter 9. John Molenda – [Overseas Chinese Railroad Camps in Nevada]Chapter 10. Daniel O. Sayers - Capitalistic Estrangement Can Be Undermined through Praxis: Past-Forward Learning through Archaeology in the Diasporic Great Dismal Swamp, 1600-1860North Atlantic, Scandinavia, and IrelandChapter 11. George Hambrecht – The Colonization of the North AtlanticChapter 12. Gavin Lucas – [The Historical Archaeology of Capitalism in Iceland]Chapter 13. Bjorner Olsen – [Capitalism and its Devastated Landscapes: Iceland and the North Atlantic]Chapter 14. Jonas Nordin – Constructing Industrial Space in the North: Commodification of Man and Nature in 17th century Sápmi (Sweden)Chapter 15. Laura McAtackney – Archaeological insights into a peace process: lived experiences of post-Troubles Northern IrelandLatin AmericaChapter 16. Samuel Sweitz – [The Impact of Capitalist Systems of Production and Ideologies on the Production and Organization of Space and Place in Latin America]Chapter 17. Cristobal Gnecco – Engaging Capitalism and Modernity from Alternative Conceptions of Time and Materiality: A Case Study from Columbia.AfricaChapter 18. Carmel Schrire – The Historical Archaeology of the VOC (Dutch East India Company with official sites between Africa and Japan)Chapter 19. Alfredo González-Ruibal – An Archaeology of Predation: Capitalism and the Coloniality of Power in Equatorial Guinea (Central Africa)