A cultural study of an array of popular North American science fiction film and television texts, Excavating the Future explores the popular archaeological imagination and the political uses to which it is being employed by the U.S. state and its adversaries.
Nicholas Drury, placed in charge of his uncle's failing shipbuilding busness, decides to build his own ship and set sail from New England for adventure and riches in the early post-Revolution years.
From an acclaimed naval historian, Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world: Robinson Crusoe, in the South Pacific.
