1. An introduction : What is archaeology? ; U.S. social history and the organization of this book
2. Archaeology in the United States before 1877 : The implications of class and regional cultures for the practice of archaeology ; The beginnings of U.S. archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean ; Savages, mound builders, and merchant princes: U.S. imperialism and the Constitution of Americanist Archaeologies ; Mexicans and Indians in the 1840s and 1850s ; Discussion
3. The professionalization of archaeology, 1877 to 1932 : Political hegemony and the recasting of culture ; New needs, new education, new professions ; The development of Americanist archaeology ; The reorganization of classical and biblical studies: archaeology in the context of gilded-age racism and anti-Semitism ; Discussion
4. Archaeology and the corporatist state, 1933 to 1968 : Archaeology during the Depression and World War II ; Archaeology during the postwar era of sustained corporatist economic growth ; Table 1: individual membership of the Society for American Archaeology, 1935-1988 ; Table 2: Individual membership of the Archaeology Institute of America, 1931-1990 ; Archaeology and anthropology ; Archaeologist and the Eastern Mediterranean ; Discussion
5. The new archaeology and the neoliberal state, 1969 to 1993 : The reorganization of archaeology and the new archaeology ; Archaeology in the new gilded age ; Discussion
6. Archaeology and multiculturalism: race, class, and gender in the neoliberal state : The reactions of archaeolgists in and to the 1970s and 1980s ; Conclusion.
