description: Ranging from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the Aztecs, to the colonies of modern European states, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 7,000 years of colonialism. (Archaeology is the only discipline that permits such a long-term view across all forms of colonialism.) Gosden argues that modern colonialism, by giving rise to settler societies, is historically unusual and represents an important area for the long-term study of power and material culture.
language: English
title: Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present
titlecomplete: Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present (Topics in Contemporary Archaeology, Series Number 2)
genres: History, Theory, Archaeology
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Cambridge University Press