The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology is a multi-authored compendium of articles on specific topics of interest to today's historical archaeologists, offering perspectives on the current state of research and collectively outlining future directions for the field.

1 Introduction; Historical Development; 2 A Brief History of Historical Archaeology in the Beginning of the Twentieth-First Century; Core Issues and Topics; 3 Colonialism in Historical Archaeology: A Review of Issues and Perspective; 4 HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE NEW ONTOLOGIES: SOME EXPERIENCES IN BRAZIL; 5 Race; 6 Intersectionality, Queer Archaeology, and Sexual Effects: Recent Advances in the Archaeology of Sexualities; 7 Capitalism and Globalization; 8 Enslavement and Emancipation; 9 COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 10 CRM/Commercial Historical Archaeology in the 21st Century; 11 Conflict Archaeology; 12 Contemporary Archaeology; 13 Historical Archaeology and Technology; Theoretical Approaches; 14 Becoming. Senses and Affects in Historical Archaeology; 15 On Interdisciplinarity and Historical Archaeology; 16 Critical Theory; 17 The Politics of Interpretation in Historical Archaeology; 18 FEMINIST HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY; 19 Marxism, Historical Archaeology and the Web of Life; 20 From an Environmental Historical Archaeology to an Historical Ecoarchaeology; 21 Gender perspectives in South American archeology - a look from Brazil; 22 Socioeconomics and Inequality in a Comparative Perspective: possibilities and problems in the Mode of Production approach; Subjects; 23 Isotope Bioarchaeology in Historical Archaeology; 24 Analysing historical artefacts: progress and challenges; 25 "A Distinction without a Difference": Primary Narrative Texts in Historical Inquiry; 26 Oral History; 27 Geographic Information Systems in Historical Archaeology; 28 Archaeology of Architecture - Buildings Archaeology; 29 Landscape Analysis; 30 Advances in Gravestone and Cemetery Studies in the United States and the Commonwealth of Nations; 31 Interpretive Directions for Historical Zooarchaeology in the Twenty-First Century; 32 Faunistic analysis - emphasis on the southern hemisphere; 33 Floral Analysis; Regional Overviews; 34 The everyday and the longue durée: Trans-historical archaeologies of western Africa.; 35 Colonies, missions, violence and trade. The historical archaeology of Northeast Africa; 36 Historical Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East; 37 East and Southeast Asia at the Age of Contact: Post-1500 Archaeology of Asia; 38 Oceania; 39 Caribbean Historical Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century; 40 HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA; 41 Historical Archaeology in Europe; 42 Regional overview: UK and Ireland; 43 Recasting Mobility and Movement in Eastern North America: a Fisheries Perspective; 44 Repercussions of Rapid Colonization: Archaeological Insights from the North American West; 45 Maritime Archaeology; 46 Antarctic Archaeology