Historical archaeologies of capitalism / Mark P. Leone, Jocelyn E. Knauf, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leone, Mark P.

Knauf, Jocelyn E.

Series:

Contributions to global historical archaeology 1574-0439

Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology ; 1574-0439

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Capitalism--History.

Capitalism.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 489 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

"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.0Chapters 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.0Chapters 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."--Publisher's website.

Contents:

Introductions

Diabolical consumerism: mass psychology and social production between the gilded and the golden ages

Alienation, praxis and significant social transformation through historical archaeology

What does womanhood have to do with capitalism?: normalized domesticity and the rise of industrialized food in Annapolis, MD, 1870-1930

Archaeology of telling time: plants and the greenhouse at Wye House Plantation

Limestone and ironstone: capitalism, value, and destruction in a nineteenth and twentieth-century quarry town

Consumption in World War II Japanese American incarceration camps

Rethinking feng shui

The first European colonization of the North Atlantic

Metals of metabolism: the construction of industrial space and the commodification of early modern Sápmi

Materialising power struggles of political imprisonment at Long Kesh/Maze prison, Northern Ireland

Las cadenas que más nos encadenan son las cadenas que hemos roto: plantation systems, capitalist mentalities, and the production of space, place, and identity in historical archaeology

Historical archaeology bottom-up: notes from Colombia

A spectral haunting of society: longue dureè archaeologies of capitalism and antimarkets in colonial Guatemala

The politics of work, "poorwhites," and plantation capitalism in Barbados

Sugar economics: a visual economy of the plantation landscape in colonial Dominica

An archaeology of predation. Capitalism and the coloniality of power in equatorial Guinea (Central Africa)

The ruins of French imperialism: an archaeology of rural dislocation in twentieth-century Senegal.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319127590

3319127594

OCLC:

899977520