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Island Lives : Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean by Paul Farnsworth; Jay B. Haviser; Andre Delpuech; Laurie A. Wilkie; Norman F. Barka; Lydia M. Pulsipher; Conrad Goodwin; Thomas C. Loftfield; David R. Watters is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Annotation This comprehensive study of the historical archaeology of the Caribbean provides sociopolitical context for the ongoing development of national identities. Long before the founding of Jamestown in 1607, there were Spanish forts, bustling towns, sugar plantations, and sea trade flourishing in the Caribbean. While richer nations, particularly the United States, may view the Caribbean today as merely a place for sun and fun, the island colonies were at one time far more important and lucrative to their European empire countries than their North American counterparts. From the 15th to the 19th centuries, as competing colonial powers vied with each other for military and economic advantage in the Western Hemisphere, events in the Caribbean directly influenced the American mainland. This is one rationale for the close study of historical archaeology in the Caribbean. Another is the growing recognition of how archaeological research can support the defining of national identities for the islands, many of them young independent states struggling to establish themselves economically and politically. By looking at cases in the French West Indies, specifically on Guadeloupe, in the

Who reads Island Lives : Historical Archaeologies of the Caribbean?

Author

Paul Farnsworth; Jay B. Haviser; Andre Delpuech; Laurie A. Wilkie; Norman F. Barka; Lydia M. Pulsipher; Conrad Goodwin; Thomas C. Loftfield; David R. Watters

Publisher

University of Alabama Press Chicago Distribution Center [distributor

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817313302

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science