This new book is fully Marxist and is composed of the third generation of scholarsin our field who are freed from the history of how the field began, but who havedone good field work with lots of data behind them. They are active internationally.The first edition of this book was limited to North America. This book includesarchaeology from the North Atlantic, Scandinavia, Ireland, West Africa, the Caribbean,and Latin America. Historical archaeology has broadened out and this volume is intended to report how that expansion shows the impact of capitalism’s processes.