An Archaeology of the English Atlantic World, 1600 - 1700

Klappentext This book is the first book-length treatment of Modern-World Historical Archaeology. It includes a compendium of information about the archaeology of the English seventeenth century by examining sites in England, the United States, Ireland, and Africa. The writings of seventeenth-century authors support the main contentions of the analysis. Zusammenfassung This book is the first book-length treatment of Modern-World Historical Archaeology. It includes a compendium of information about the archaeology of the English seventeenth century by examining sites in England! the United States! Ireland! and Africa. The writings of seventeenth-century authors support the main contentions of the analysis.

Auteur

Charles E. Orser, Jr, Research Professor at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, is an anthropological historical archaeologist who investigates the modern world as it was created after about 1492. He has conducted excavations in the United States, Europe, and South America and is the author of over ninety professional articles and several books, including Historical Archaeology (3rd edition, 2016) and The Archaeology of Race and Racialization in Historic America (2007). He is also the founder and editor of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology.

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Explores the tremendous discoveries historical archaeologists have made about English life in the Americas during the seventeenth century.

Contenu

Part I. Foundations of the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic World: 1. Archaeology and the seventeenth-century English material world in the Atlantic; 2. The material world of seventeenth-century England; 3. The material worlds of seventeenth-century Ireland, coastal Africa, and Native America; Part II. The Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic World: 4. Atlantic material culture: boats, ships, and navigation; 5. Tracing the ideological haunts in the seventeenth-century English world; 6. The fixed material world of the seventeenth-century English Atlantic; 7. The portable material world of the seventeenth-century English Atlantic; Part III. Archaeology and Early Modern History: 8. Archaeology and the modern world.