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Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism
. Ed(S): Leone, Mark P.; Potter, Parker B.
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Description for Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism
Hardback. American things, American material culture, and American archaeology are the themes of this book. The authors use goods made in America to illuminate issues such as racism, sexism, and regional bias. Contributors utilize data about everyday objects, from tin cans to namebrand items. Editor(s): Leone, Mark P.; Potter, Parker B. Series: Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HD; KCS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1220.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Springer Science+Business Media United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780306460678
SKU
V9780306460678
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99-15
Reviews for Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism
`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 ... Read more