An Archaeology of the English Atlantic World, 1600 – 1700

Charles E. Orser, Jr.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781107130487
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108601368
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

An Archaeology of the British Atlantic World, 1600–1700 is the first book to apply the methods of modern-world archaeology to the study of the seventeenth-century English colonial world. Charles E. Orser, Jr explores a range of material evidence of daily life collected from archaeological excavations throughout the Atlantic region, including England, Ireland, western Africa, Native North America, and the eastern United States. He considers the archaeological record together with primary texts by contemporary writers. Giving particular attention to housing, fortifications, delftware, and stoneware, Orser offers new interpretations for each type of artefact. His study demonstrates how the archaeological record expands our understanding of the Atlantic world at a critical moment of its expansion, as well as to the development of the modern, Western world.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Table of contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• Preface
• Part I Foundations of the Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic World
• Part II The Seventeenth-Century English Atlantic World
• Part III Archaeology and Early Modern History
• Bibliography
• Index