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Charles Houck

Global Studies
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Office: Macy 104
Phone: 704-687-3188
Email: cwhouck@uncc.edu
Academic Interests
collapse
colonialism
conquest
development
development organization
ecological factors
indigenous resistance
industrial states
organization
polities
pre-industrial states
settlement patterns
yucatan mexico
Related People
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Nicole Peterson
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charlesHis research focuses on the development, organization and collapse of pre-industrial states, with particular emphasis on the Precolumbian states of Mesoamerica. His fieldwork has concentrated on the examination of settlement patterns in Yucatan, Mexico, and the political, economic and ecological factors that shaped this and other Maya polities. He is also interested in the complex cultural dynamics inherent to conquest and indigenous resistance to colonialism.

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