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By Mark P. Leone,Parker B. Potter Jr.

American issues, American fabric tradition, and American archaeology are the topics of this ebook. The authors use items used or made in the United States to light up matters comparable to tenancy, racism, sexism, and local bias. individuals make the most of info approximately daily gadgets - from tin cans and bottles to namebrand goods, from fish bones to equipment - to investigate the best way American capitalism works. Their cogent analyses take us actually from damaged dishes to the overseas economic system. in particular impressive chapters study how an archaeologist formulates questions on exploitation lower than capitalism, and the way the learn of artifacts finds African-American center type tradition and its reaction to racism.

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