Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World

Christopher DeCorse is Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University. He is the author of several books, including Anthropology: A Global Perspective and Anthropology: The Basics.

"Taken as a whole, the volume provides an interesting anthology of postmodern approaches to World Systems Theory." — American Antiquity

• List of IllustrationsPreface1. Historical Landscapes of the Modern WorldChristopher R. DeCorse 2. 1492: A Different Kind of "Discovery"Matthew Johnson3. Indigenous Caribbean Networks in a Globalizing WorldCorinne L. Hofman4. Rethinking Colonial Maya Peripherality: Colonial Frictions, Salvaged Value, and the Production of Modernity inHighland GuatemalaGuido Pezzarossi5. Early Modern Landscapes of Chocolate: The Case of TacuscalcoKathryn Sampeck6. Early-Seventeenth-Century Settlement in Barbados and the Shift to Sugar, Slavery, and CapitalismDouglas V. Armstrong7. Indefensible Landscapes: Power Dynamics, Social Relations, and Antigua's Eighteenth-Century FortificationsChristopher Kurt Waters8. Graveyards as Landscapes of Power in the Early Modern Atlantic WorldErik R. Seeman9. Life beyond the City: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Colonial Andean MobilityNoa Corcoran-Tadd10. Landscapes of Emergent Frontier Economies at Mission San BuenaventuraThomas E. Tolley11. Bending but Unbroken: The Nine Tribes of the Northern Tsimshian through the Colonial EraAndrew Martindale, George MacDonald, and Sage Vanier12. Crisis and Transformation in the Bight of Benin at the Dawn of the Atlantic TradeGérard L. Chouin and Olanrewaju Blessing Lasisi13. Nineteenth-Century Coastal Guinea: Manifestations of the "Illegal" Slave Trade in a Local SystemKenneth G. Kelly14. Economic and Material Basis of Wildlife Preservation in Early Colonial East AfricaMartin S. Shanguhyia15. Huge Oceans, Small Comparisons: Danish Enclaves in the Indian and Atlantic OceansMark W. HauserContributorsIndex