Frontiers of Colonialism - Hardcover

by Christine D. Beaule (Editor)

Featuring case studies of prehistoric and historic sites from Mesoamerica, China, the Philippines, the Pacific, Egypt, and elsewhere, Frontiers of Colonialism makes the surprising claim that colonialism can and should be compared across radically different time periods and locations. This volume challenges archaeologists to rethink the two major dichotomies of European versus non-European and prehistoric versus historic colonialism, which can be limiting, self-imposed boundaries. By bringing together contributors working in different regions and time periods, this volume examines the variability in colonial administrative strategies, local forms of resistance to cultural assimilation, hybridized cultural traditions, and other cross-cultural interactions within a global, comparative framework. Taken together these essays argue that crossing these frontiers of study will give anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians more power to recognize and explain the highly varied local impacts of colonialism. Contributors: Kenneth M. Ames Grace Barretto‐Tesoro Christine D. Beaule Geoffrey Clark Kirk E. Costion Vito Hernandez Richard Hingley Nicholas Hudson Tianlong Jiao Eric Jones Adam Kaeding Mohamed Kenawi Robert J. Littman Ulrike Matthies Green Victor Paz Jay Silverstein Cameron M. Smith Douglas C. Wilson

Author Biography

Christine d. Beaule is associate professor of Latin American and Iberian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa.