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Autore |
Carr Lydia C |
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Titolo |
Tessa Verney Wheeler [[electronic resource] ] : women and archaeology before World War Two / / L.C. Carr |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-106951-5 |
0-19-180466-5 |
1-280-77740-0 |
9786613687791 |
0-19-162635-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women archaeologists |
England Antiquities |
London (England) Antiquities |
Wales Antiquities |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; 1. Introduction; 2. Girlhood (1893-1910); 3. UCL's Women and Pre-war Feminism: Tessa Verney's Models; 4. Education and the War (1910-1918); 5. Wales (1920-1927); 6. London (1928-1936); 7. Lydney Park, Gloucestershire (1928-1929); 8. Verulamium, Hertfordshire (1930-1933); 9. Public Archaeology, Publicly Performed: Mosaics and Reporters; 10. Maiden Castle, Dorset (1934-1937); 11. The Legacies of the Dead; Appendix 1. Timeline of Main Events in Tessa Verney Wheeler's Life; Appendix 2. Verney Wheeler: An Ongoing Bibliography; Bibliography |
IndexA; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this book, Carr unravels the biography of the archaeologist Tessa Verney Wheeler, a charming, tiny woman whose untimely death left her archaeological career overshadowed by her distinguished husband, Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Despite a short career of just over twenty years, Verney Wheeler published and excavated extensively while |
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