Böcker i Caribbean Archaeology and Ethnohistory-serien

Draws on archaeological, historical, and ethnohistorical sources to explore the impacts of sixteenth-century Spanish colonization on indigenous peoples in the Greater Antilles. This book shows the complexity of the initial exchange between the Old and New Worlds and examines the ways the indigenous peoples responded to Spanish colonization.

Examines the largely unexplored topics in Caribbean archaeology of looting of heritage sites, fraudulent artifacts, and illicit trade of archaeological materials. This is the first book-length study of its kind to highlight the increasing commodification of Caribbean Precolumbian heritage.

Addresses issues in Caribbean history and historical archaeology such as freedom, frontiers, urbanism, postemancipation life, trade, plantation life, and new heritage. This collection moves beyond plantation archaeology by expanding the knowledge of the diverse Caribbean experiences from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.

The first archaeological study of the poor whites of Barbados, the descendants of seventeenth-century European indentured servants and small farmers. Using archaeological, historical, and oral sources, Matthew Reilly shows how the precarious existence of the Barbadian Redlegs challenged elite hypercapitalistic notions of economics, race, and class.