The familiar past? : archaeologies of later historical Britain / / edited by Sarah Tarlow and Susie West

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820576303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999
• ISBN: 1-134-66034-0; 1-282-31990-6; 9786612319907; 1-134-66035-9; 0-415-18806-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): TarlowSarah <1967->; WestSusie <1966->
• Disciplina: 936.1
• Soggetti: Excavations (Archaeology) - Great Britain; Great Britain Historiography; Great Britain Antiquities
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 The processional city some issues for historical archaeology; 3 The material culture of food in early modern England c 1650 1750; 4 Building Jerusalem transfer printed finewares and the creation of British identity; 5 Reconstructing castles and refashioning identities in Renaissance England; 6 The familiar fraternity the appropriation and consumption of medieval guildhalls in early modern York; 7 Social space and the English country house; 8 The archaeology of the workhouse the changing uses of the workhouse buildings at St Mary's Southampton9 Planning development and social archaeology; 10 Familiarity and contempt the archaeology of the modern; 11 Wormie clay and blessed sleep death and disgust in later historic Britain; 12 The men that worked for England they have their graves at home consumerist issues within the production and purchase of gravestones in Victorian York; 13 Welsh cultural identity in nineteenth century Pembrokeshire the pedimented headstone as a ; graveyard monument; 14 Bloody meadows the places of battle; 15 The archaeological study of post medieval gardens practice and theory16 Strangely familiar; 17 Negotiating our familiar pasts; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The Familiar Past surveys material culture from 1500 to the present day. Fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, include discussion of issues such as: * the origins of modernity in urban contexts * the historical anthropology of food * the social and spatial construction of country houses * the social history of a workhouse site * changes in memorial forms and inscriptions * the archaeological treatment of gardens.The Familiar Past has been structured as a teaching text and will be useful to students of history and archaeology.