In my book A Historical Archaeology of the Modern World (1996), I outlined a general approach intended to help forge a truly global historical archaeology. The gist of my argument was that after about A.D. 1500, conscious agents of colonialism, capitalism, Eurocentrism. and modernity created a series of complex, multidimensional links that served to tie together diverse peoples around the globe. My arguments were, in essence, that it was the interaction of these diverse peoples that created the many historical manifestations of the modern world, the world which we in fact now inhabit. Central to my argument was the idea that men and women, in the course of their daily lives, create and maintain the connections that precipitate both cultural change and cultural continuity over time.
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Orser, C.E. (2005). Network Theory and the Archaeology of Modern History. In: Global Archaeological Theory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48652-0_7
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