Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology

Charles E. Orser, Jr. is Research Professor at Vanderbilt University and Research Adjunct at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, and Researcher with Timmins Martelle in London, Ontario. He is the author of several books including Historical Archaeology (2016, 3rd edition), A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (1996), and An Archaeology of the English Atlantic World, 1600–1700 (2018). He is the founder and editor of the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, and a recipient of the J. C. Harrington Medal from the Society for Historical Archaeology.Andrés Zarankin is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Director of the Laboratory of Antarctic Studies in Human Sciences (LEACH-UFMG). His main research interests include Antarctic archaeology, archaeological theory, archaeology of dictatorship, and historical archaeology.Pedro Paulo A. Funari is Professor in the Department of History of the University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. He is former World Archaeological Congress Secretary, author of several books and papers and co-editor of Historical Archaeology, Back from the Edge (Routledge, 1999).Susan Lawrence is Professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches archaeology. She is the author of several books and numerous publications on gender, material culture studies, urban archaeology, British colonialism, and industrial archaeology. Her current research focuses on landscape and environmental archaeologies of the Anthropocene. Susan is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Australian Academy of the Humanities.James Symonds is Professor of Historical Archaeology at the University of Amsterdam. His edited and co-authored books include: The Historical Archaeology of the Sheffield Tableware and Cutlery Industries (2002); South Uist: Archaeology & History (2004); Industrial Archaeology: Future Directions (2005); Interpreting the Early Modern World: Transatlantic Perspectives (2010); Table Settings: The Material Culture and Social Context of Dining, AD 1700-1900 (2011); Historical Archaeologies of Cognition: Historical Archaeologies of Faith, Hope, and Charity (2013).

• 1 Introduction; Historical Development; 2 A Brief History of Historical Archaeology in the Beginning of the Twentieth-First Century; Core Issues and Topics; 3 Colonialism in Historical Archaeology: A Review of Issues and Perspective; 4 HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE NEW ONTOLOGIES: SOME EXPERIENCES IN BRAZIL; 5 Race; 6 Intersectionality, Queer Archaeology, and Sexual Effects: Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Sexualities; 7 Capitalism and Globalization; 8 Enslavement and Emancipation; 9 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 10 CRM/Commercial Historical Archaeology in the 21st Century; 11 Conflict Archaeology; 12 Contemporary Archaeology; 13 Historical Archaeology and Technology; Theoretical Approaches; 14 Becoming. Senses and Affects in Historical Archaeology; 15 On Interdisciplinarity and Historical Archaeology; 16 Critical Theory; 17 The Politics of Interpretation in Historical Archaeology; 18 FEMINIST HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY; 19 Marxism, Historical Archaeology and the Web of Life; 20 From an Environmental Historical Archaeology to an Historical Ecoarchaeology; 21 Gender perspectives in South American archeology – a look from Brazil; 22 Socioeconomics and Inequality in a Comparative Perspective: possibilities and problems in the Mode of Production approach; Subjects; 23 Isotope Bioarchaeology in Historical Archaeology; 24 Analysing historical artefacts: progress and challenges; 25 "A Distinction without a Difference": Primary Narrative Texts in Historical Inquiry; 26 Oral History; 27 Geographic Information Systems in Historical Archaeology; 28 Archaeology of Architecture – Buildings Archaeology; 29 Landscape Analysis; 30 Advances in Gravestone and Cemetery Studies in the United States and the Commonwealth of Nations; 31 Interpretive Directions for Historical Zooarchaeology in the Twenty-First Century; 32 Faunistic analysis - emphasis on the southern hemisphere; 33 Floral Analysis; Regional Overviews; 34 The everyday and the longue durée: Trans-historical archaeologies of western Africa.; 35 Colonies, missions, violence and trade. The historical archaeology of Northeast Africa; 36 Historical Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East; 37 East and Southeast Asia at the Age of Contact: Post-1500 Archaeology of Asia; 38 Oceania; 39 Caribbean Historical Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century; 40 HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; 41 Historical Archaeology in Europe; 42 Regional overview: UK and Ireland; 43 Recasting Mobility and Movement in Eastern North America: a Fisheries Perspective; 44 Repercussions of Rapid Colonization: Archaeological Insights from the North American West; 45 Maritime Archaeology; 46 Antarctic Archaeology

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