Frontiers of colonialism / edited by Christine D. Beaule.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beaule, Christine D., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonies--History.

Colonies.

Colonization--History.

Colonization.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

World politics--History.

World politics.

Antiquities.

Archaeology and history.

Social archaeology.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (372 pages) : illustrations, tables, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2017.

Summary:

“An original contribution and an important one. Presents interesting and compelling case studies in the variability of colonialism and colonial encounters.”—Melissa S. Murphy, coeditor of Enduring Conquests: Rethinking the Archaeology of Resistance to Spanish Colonialism in the Americas “Creates bridges to understand and compare diverse sets of data and questions, incorporating larger ideas of colonial and indigenous structure, action, reaction, and agency. These new insights may turn over some previously held understandings of what we associate with colonialism and how to perceive it.”—John G. Douglass, coeditor of New Mexico and the Pimería Alta: The Colonial Period in the American Southwest “Pushes archaeologists out of familiar theoretical, methodological, and regional silos to expand understandings of colonial context and relations between old-timers/indigenous people and newcomers/colonists.”—Siobhan m. Hart, coeditor of Decolonizing Indigenous Histories: Exploring Prehistoric/Colonial Transitions in Archaeology Featuring case studies of prehistoric and historic sites from Mesoamerica, China, the Philippines, the Pacific, Egypt, and elsewhere, Frontiers of Colonialism makes the surprising claim that colonialism can and should be compared across radically different time periods and locations. This volume challenges archaeologists to rethink the two major dichotomies of European versus non-European and prehistoric versus historic colonialism, which can be limiting, self-imposed boundaries. By bringing together contributors working in different regions and time periods, this volume examines the variability in colonial administrative strategies, local forms of resistance to cultural assimilation, hybridized cultural traditions, and other cross-cultural interactions within a global, comparative framework. Taken together these essays argue that crossing these frontiers of study will give anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians more power to recognize and explain the highly varied local impacts of colonialism.

Contents:

Challenging the frontiers of colonialism / Christine D. Beaule

Part I: Local adaptations

Haudenosaunee settlement ecology before and after contact in Northeastern North America / Eric E. Jones

Negotiating colonialism on the southern frontier of Spanish Yucatán / Adam R. Kaeding

The Romans in Britain: colonization on an imperial frontier / Richard Hingley

Contextualizing the Chinook at contact: the middle village / Douglas C. Wilson, Kenneth M. Ames, and Cameron M. Smith

Part II: Movement, conflict, and transformation

Power and resilience: flooding and occupation in a late-nineteenth-century Philippine town / Grace Barretto-Tesoro and Vito Hernandez

"Is this like the Nile that riseth up?" Ethnic relations at Thmuis / Robert J. Littman and Jay E. Silverstein

Violence in early maritime encounters in the Pacific / Geoffrey Clark

Population migrations, colonization, and social changes in the late prehistoric lower Yangtze River / Tianlong Jiao

Part III: Rethinking categories

Using a graphic model to explore the range of cross-cultural interaction in ancient borderlands / Ulrike Matthies Green and Kirk E. Costion

This land is my land: identity and conflict on the western frontier of the Aztec Empire / Jay E. Silverstein

Images of evangelization and archipelagos of Spanish colonialism in Latin America and the Philippines / Christine D. Beaule

Conclusions / Christine D. Beaule.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5307-2

0-8130-5280-7

OCLC:

989726253