This new edition of Historical Archaeologies of Capitalism shows where the study of capitalism
leads archaeologists scholars and activists. Essays cover a range of geographic colonial and
racist contexts around the Atlantic basin: Latin America and the Caribbean North America the
North Atlantic Europe and Africa. Here historical archaeologists use current capitalist theory
to show the results of creating social classes employing racism and beginning and expanding
the global processes of resource exploitation. Scholars in this volume also do not avoid the
present condition of people discussing the lasting effects of capitalism's methods resistance
to them their archaeology and their point to us now.Chapters interpret capitalism in the past
the processes that make capitalist expansion possible and the worldwide sale and reduction of
people. Authors discuss how to record and interpret these. This book continues a global
historical archaeology one that is engaged with other disciplines peoples and suppressed
political and economic histories. Authors in this volume describe how new identities are
created reshaped and made to appear natural.Chapters in this second edition also continue to
address why historical archaeologists study capitalism and the relevance of this work
expanding on one of the important contributions of historical archaeologies of capitalism:
critical archaeology.
