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"This interdisciplinary volume brings together a richly substantive collection of case studies that examine European-indigene interactions, economic relations, and their materialities in the formation of the modern world. Research has well demonstrated the extent and complexity of the varied local economic and political systems, and diverse social formations that pre-dated European contact. These preexisting systems articulated with the expanding European economy and, in doing so, shaped its emergence. Moving beyond the confines of national or Atlantic histories to examine regional systems and their historical trajectories on a global scale, the studies within this volume draw examples from the Caribbean, Mesoamerica, North America, South America, Africa, and South Asia. While the contributions are rooted in substantive studies from different world areas, their overarching aim is to negotiate between global and local frames, revealing how the expanding world-system entangled the non-Western world in global economies, yet did so in ways that were locally articulated, varied and, often, non-European in their expression"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Historical landscapes of the modern world / Christopher R. DeCorse -- 1492 : a different kind of "discovery" / Matthew Johnson -- Indigenous Caribbean networks in a globalizing world / Corinne L. Hofman -- Rethinking colonial Maya peripherality : colonial frictions, salvaged value and the production of modernity in highland Guatemala / Guido Pezzarossi -- Early modern landscapes of chocolate : the case of TacusCalco / Kathryn Sampeck -- Early seventeenth-century settlement in Barbados and the shift to sugar, slavery, and capitalism / Douglas V. Armstrong -- Indefensible landscapes : power dynamics, social relations, and Antigua's eighteenth-century fortifications / Christopher Kurt Waters -- Graveyards as landscapes of power in the early modern Atlantic world / Erik R. Seeman -- Life beyond the city : historical and archaeological perspectives on colonial Andean mobility / Noa Corcoran-Tadd -- Landscapes of emergent frontier economies at Mission San Buenaventura / Thomas E. Tolley -- Bending but unbroken : the nine tribes of the northern Tsimshian through the colonial era / Andrew Martindale, George MacDonald, and Sage Vanier -- Crisis and transformation in the "slave rivers" at the dawn of the Atlantic trade / Gérard L. Chouin and Olanrewaju Blessing Lasisi -- Nineteenth-century coastal Guinea : manifestations of the "illegal" slave trade in a local system / Kenneth G. Kelly -- Economic and material basis of wildlife preservation in early colonial East Africa / Martin S. Shanguhyia -- Huge oceans, small comparisons : Danish enclaves in the Indian and Atlantic oceans / Mark W. Hauser.

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