A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World

Orser, Charles E.

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“…This shift means that I can now talk of the archaeology of Swahili sites fitting neatly with umbrella definitions of historical archaeology which cite European colonialism as a key comparative area for the field (Deetz 1991;Orser 1996). Early Swahili settlement appears in documents such as the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, and Swahili archaeology can be argued to be part of historical archaeology inasmuch as it has documents such as the Periplus and various town-centered chronicles attesting to early settlements (Fleisher 2004).…”

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“…However, documentary history certainly shifts as one enters the sixteenth century. I do not wish to spend time writing about when precisely the coast might be considered to become comparable with other areas falling under the purview of "historical archaeology of the modern world" (Orser 1996). As I outlined in the introduction, the nineteenth-century sits securely within global comparative analytical frameworks of historical archaeology.…”

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Why Clove Plantations: East African Archaeology, History, and Anthropology

Croucher

2014

Capitalism and Cloves

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Clove plantations such as Mgoli-the site on Pemba discussed in detail later in this book-were a typical part of the rural landscape of nineteenth-century Zanzibar. During the eighteenth century, Zanzibar, along with much of the rest of the East African coast, had come under the rule of Oman. It was only from the beginning of the nineteenth-century, however, that Zanzibar became a serious colonial outpost of Oman, with significant numbers of Omani immigrants (mostly men) coming to the islands. Omani colonial interests were largely focused on mercantile profits from the caravan trade, but the beginning of the nineteenth-century saw a shift; mercantile profits became increasingly invested into plantations. On Zanzibar, an accident of geography and history meant that clove plantations came to dominate the islands' agrarian economy. By the close of the nineteenth-century, Zanzibar was one of the world's major suppliers of cloves (Martin 1991).This last fact hints at the scale of transformation in the agrarian sector of Zanzibar during this period. But this was not simply a shift in terms of what was being grown. Clove plantations are interesting as they were also a root cause of social transformations across much of the islands. They were the institutions through which plantation residents came to understand their lives, through which social positions were often structured, and they were the context of the majority of day-to-day practices of Zanzibaris through the nineteenth-century. Slavery was at the heart of these transformations; agricultural and domestic labor was carried out by enslaved men and women from mainland Eastern and East-Central Africa. Enslaved women were also commonly present as concubines in elite households. As I discuss in greater detail in Chap. 4, the scale of slavery was immense; by the close of the nineteenth-century, enslaved or recently manumitted individuals outnumbered indigenous Swahili and other immigrant populations (even if the line between these groups were not always clear-cut). As several historians have discussed, the large immigrant African population, along with continued labor migration from mainland Africa, came to be decisive in the social and political formation of contemporary Zanzibar

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Section: Early Colonialismmentioning

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Why Clove Plantations: East African Archaeology, History, and Anthropology

Croucher

2014

Capitalism and Cloves

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“…The metaphor of the network has gone on to gain extensive popularity and application throughout the social sciences as a different way to think about the spatialities of globalisation (Leitner et al 2002:274;Magee and Thompson 2010:45;Marston et al 2005:417;Sheppard 2002:315-316 (Knappett 2011:38-29;Orser 2005:88). It is through such social and spatial links that resources -people, information, and of relevance to archaeology, material culture -move, often providing tangible evidence of the connections between geographically distant people and places (Orser 2004b:119;see also Hardesty 1988;Orser 1996Orser :32, 2005Wellman and Berkowitz 1988:4;Wellman et al 1988:157).…”

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“…Hence, in their disciplinary pursuit to investigate the formation of this modern world, historical archaeologists seek to explore the global dimensions of their archaeological sites; to dig locally and think globally, as Orser (1996) famously entreated almost two decades ago. This remains an important but challenging task.…”

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An "out-of-the-way little place": Historical archaeology and globalisation at St Lawrence, Queensland, Australia

Buckler¹

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This thesis presents a historical archaeological investigation of St Lawrence, a former port town in Central Queensland, Australia, from its establishment in the mid-nineteenth century, to the arrival of the railway in the early 1920s. This period coincided with a time of heightened global mobility while St Lawrence may be an out-of-the-way little place, which has long struggled with issues of isolation and disconnection, its story also speaks to a global history of migration, trade and environmental transformation. This thesis contributes to an understanding of colonial port settlements in Australia and demonstrates the potential of historical archaeology to contribute to the wider study of globalisation and its transformative effects and present day implications.ii

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Space, Spatiality, and Archaeology

Blake¹

2007

A Companion to Social Archaeology

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A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World

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Why Clove Plantations: East African Archaeology, History, and Anthropology

Why Clove Plantations: East African Archaeology, History, and Anthropology

An "out-of-the-way little place": Historical archaeology and globalisation at St Lawrence, Queensland, Australia

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