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Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

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  • © 1999

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Editors:
  1. Mark P. Leone

    1. University of Maryland, College Park, USA

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  2. Parker B. Potter

    1. Sargent Museum of Archaeology Concord, USA

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Part of the book series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology (CGHA)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Issues in a Historical Archaeology Devoted to Studying Capitalism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Setting Some Terms for Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

      • Mark P. Leone
      Pages 3-20

  3. Where the Questions Come From

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-22
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    2. Why Should Historical Archaeologists Study Capitalism?

      • Alison Wylie
      Pages 23-50

    3. Historical Archaeology and Identity in Modern America

      • Parker B. Potter Jr.
      Pages 51-79

    4. The Contested Commons

      • Terrence W. Epperson
      Pages 81-110

  4. Integration into Capitalism and Impoverishment

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-113
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    2. Ex Occidente Lux?

      • Margaret Purser
      Pages 115-141

    3. Archaeology and the Challenges of Capitalist Farm Tenancy in America

      • Charles E. Orser Jr.
      Pages 143-167

    4. “A Bold and Gorgeous Front”

      • Paul R. Mullins
      Pages 169-193

    5. Ceramics from Annapolis, Maryland: A Measure of Time Routines and Work Discipline

      • Mark P. Leone
      Pages 195-216

  5. Beyond North America

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-218
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    2. Historical, Archaeology, Capitalism

      • Matthew Johnson
      Pages 219-232

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 233-248
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About this book

American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. The authors use goods used or made in America to illuminate issues such as tenancy, racism, sexism, and regional bias. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects - from tin cans and bottles to namebrand items, from fish bones to machinery - to analyze the way American capitalism works. Their cogent analyses take us literally from broken dishes to the international economy. Especially notable chapters examine how an archaeologist formulates questions about exploitation under capitalism, and how the study of artifacts reveals African-American middle class culture and its response to racism.

Reviews

`Matthew Johnson's commentary does an excellent job of pulling the articles ... together, exploring the problems that they raise, and placing their concerns in an even broader temporal and spatial context. As he points out, writing a historical archaeology of capitalism is a complex and difficult task. This volume is a welcome and useful contribution to that task.'
Journal of Anthropological Research, 56 (2000)

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Maryland, College Park, USA

    Mark P. Leone

  • Sargent Museum of Archaeology Concord, USA

    Parker B. Potter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism

  • Editors: Mark P. Leone, Parker B. Potter

  • Series Title: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4767-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1999

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46067-8Published: 31 January 1999

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4767-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1574-0439

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 248

  • Topics: Archaeology

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