Power, Political Economy, and Historical Landscapes of the Modern World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
1 Historical Landscapes of the Modern World
	Deep Time and Local Pasts
	Beyond Nations, Oceans, and Hemispheres8
	Historical Landscapes of the Modern World
	Notes
	Works Cited
2 1492: A Different Kind of “Discovery”
	Dover to London, Chalk and Clay
	London: Streetscapes, Strangers
	London to Chester: Midland England
	Chester to Caernarvon: Uplands
	Dublin to Galway: Toward an Atlantic World
	General Reflections over a Glass of Wine
	Elements of Change
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	Works Cited
3 Indigenous Caribbean Networks in a Globalizing World
	The Precolonial Caribbean
	The Columbian Turn: Exploitation and Enslavement
	Gold and Pearls
	Kalinago Strongholds
	Amerindian-African-European Intercultural Dynamics
	Conclusion: Continuity and Change in the Indigenous Caribbean
	Acknowledgments
	Works Cited
4 Rethinking Colonial Maya Peripherality
	Generative Frictions, Salvage, and the Complexes of Conjuncture
	Native Allies and Mythical Conquistadors
	Colonial Site Planning and Territoriality
	Economic Landscapes and Infrastructures of Tribute and Prestige
	Ambivalent and Anxious Landscapes: Inhabiting the Differently Familiar
	Works Cited
5 Early Modern Landscapes of Chocolate
	Places of Chocolate
	Changing Places
	Pipil Tacuscalco: Spatial Regimes
	The Place of Tacuscalco
	Sixteenth-Century Tacuscalco: A Battlefield
	Tacuscalco and Colonial Order
	The Economic and Political Place of Colonial Tacuscalco
	The Moral Place and Urban Spaces of Tacuscalco
	From Pueblo to Barrio
	Change in Place
	Notes
	Works Cited
6 Early-Seventeenth-Century Settlement in Barbados and the Shift to Sugar, Slavery, and Capitalism
	Sugar in Barbados
	Setting the Stage: Emergent Agro-Industrial Capitalism in the Seventeenth Century
	Trents Plantation and the Shift to Sugar in Barbados
	Understanding Change: Barbados’s place in the Turn to Capitalism
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	Works Cited
7 Indefensible Landscapes: Power Dynamics, Social Relations, and Antigua’s Eighteenth-Century Fortifications
	Plantations in Context
	Antigua’s Fortifications
	Landscape and Movement
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
8 Graveyards as Landscapes of Power in the Early Modern Atlantic World
	Jews in the Early Modern Caribbean
	The African Burial Ground, Manhattan
	Conclusion: Graveyards as Intersections
	Notes
	Works Cited
9 Life beyond the City: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Colonial Andean Mobility
	The Emergence of the Colonial Andean Landscape
	Urban Perspectives
	Historical Perspectives on the Andean Countryside
	Landscapes of Production
	Landscapes of Mobility
	Conclusions
	Works Cited
10 Landscapes of Emergent Frontier Economies at Mission San Buenaventura
	Mission Landscapes
	The Alta California Missions
	Mission San Buenaventura
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
11 Bending but Unbroken: The Nine Tribes of the Northern Tsimshian through the Colonial Era
	Setting the Stage
	The Nine Tribes through the Nineteenth Century
	Spatial Patterns of Tribes
	Economic Transitions
	Discussion: Evidence of Resilience in Tsimshian-ness through Tribal Identity
	Conclusions
	Works Cited
12 Crisis and Transformation in the Bight of Benin at the Dawn of the Atlantic Trade
	Unfree Labor in the Gulf of Guinea in the Late Fifteenth Century
	Raising Lazarus: Reassessing Early Ijebu’s Historiography and Archaeology
	Long-Term Transformations in Ijebu: A Tentative Historical Narrative
	Notes
	Works Cited
13 Nineteenth-Century Coastal Guinea: Manifestations of the “Illegal” Slave Trade in a Local System
	The Archaeological Exploration of Private Trade
	Local Impacts of the Atlantic Trade
	Notes
	Works Cited
14 Economic and Material Basis of Wildlife Preservation in Early Colonial East Africa
	East Africa’s Wildlife Resources: The Precolonial Political Economy
	Colonialism, Game Preservation, and Material Extraction
	The Economics of Hunting Licenses and Firearms
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
15 Huge Oceans, Small Comparisons: Danish Enclaves in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans
	Two Oceans One System in the Danish Mercantile World
	Two Danish Enclaves that Rhyme
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Works Cited
Contributors
Index