Archaeology and Colonialism: Cultural Contact from 5000 BC to the Present

by Chris Gosden

Book Overview

Archaeology is the only discipline that allows us to take a long-term view across all forms of colonialism, from the Uruk cities of early Mesopotamia, through the empires of the Romans and the Aztecs, to the colonies of modern European states. In this innovative study, Chris Gosden presents a comparative survey of 5000 years of colonialism. Defining colonialism as, crucially, a relationship with material culture, destabilising of older values, changing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521787955
• ISBN13: 9780521787956
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"