Germany's ancient pasts : archaeology and historical interpretation since 1700 /
The book offers a vivid portrait of the development of antiquarianism and archaeology, the interaction between regional and national history, and scholarly debates about the use of ancient objects to answer questions of race, ethnicity, and national belonging. While excavations in central Europe thr...
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| Formaat: | Licensed eBooks |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
[2018]
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| Online toegang: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1796098 |
Inhoudsopgave:
- Introduction
- The discovery of Germany's ancient pasts. The sources for prehistory: texts and objects in the eighteenth century
- Preparing artifacts for history: archaeology after the Napoleonic Wars
- Archaeology and the creation of historical places
- The new empire and the ancient past. Rudolf Virchow and the anthropological orientation of prehistory
- Domestic archaeology: a preeminently regional discipline
- Narrating the national past
- Between science and ideology. Professionalization and nationalism in domestic archaeology
- Prehistory as a national socialist narrative
- Epilogue.