Overview: This unique book offers a theoretical framework for historicalarchaeology that explicitly relies on network theory. Charles E.Orser, Jr., demonstrates the need to examine the impact ofcolonialism, Eurocentrism, capitalism, and modernity on allarchaeological sites inhabited after 1492 and shows how theselarge-scale forces create a link among all the sites. Orserinvestigates the connections between a seventeenth-century runawayslave kingdom in Palmares, Brazil and an early nineteenth-centurypeasant village in central Ireland. Studying artifacts, landscapes,and social inequalities in th
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