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



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Titolo: The familiar past? : archaeologies of later historical Britain / / edited by Sarah Tarlow and Susie West Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1999
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
Disciplina: 936.1
Soggetto topico: Excavations (Archaeology) - Great Britain
Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Historiography
Great Britain Antiquities
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Altri autori: TarlowSarah <1967->  
WestSusie <1966->  
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.
Titolo autorizzato: The familiar past  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-31990-6
9786612319907
1-134-66035-9
0-415-18806-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450121703321
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