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Autore: | King Julia A. <1956-> |
Titolo: | Archaeology, narrative, and the politics of the past [[electronic resource] ] : the view from southern Maryland / / Julia A. King |
Pubblicazione: | Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2012 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (290 p.) |
Disciplina: | 975.5/18 |
Soggetto topico: | Archaeology - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) |
Archaeology - Maryland | |
Historic sites - Psychological aspects | |
Historic sites - Conservation and restoration - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) | |
Historic sites - Conservation and restoration - Maryland | |
Collective memory | |
Antiquities in popular culture - Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) | |
Antiquities in popular culture - Maryland | |
Soggetto geografico: | Saint Marys City (Md.) History |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | The bounds of history -- How the past became a place -- The transient nature of all things sublunary -- Collecting Utopia -- The past is a rural landscape -- Commemorative hauntings -- Beyond storytelling. |
Sommario/riassunto: | In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches-archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical-to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in which various groups, from patriots and politicians of the antebellum era to present-day archaeologists and preservationists, have transformed key landscapes into historical, indeed sacred, spaces. The sites King examines include the region's vanishing tob |
Titolo autorizzato: | Archaeology, narrative, and the politics of the past |
ISBN: | 1-282-16648-4 |
9786613809551 | |
1-57233-888-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910463760103321 |
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