Format:
Online-Ressource (321 p)
ISBN:
9780415217002
Content:
This book examines the interplay of objects and identity in Britain, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka. The evidence drawn upon includes vernacular architecture, landscapes, and everyday objects
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; ARCHAEOLOGIES OF THE BRITISH: Explorations of identity in Great Britain and its colonies 1600-1945; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Foreword; Introduction: archaeological perspectives on the British and their empire; Part I The First Empire: 1600-1800; 1 Muffling inclusiveness: some notes towards an archaeology of the British; 2 Civic ritual, townscape and social identity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Newcastle upon Tyne; 3 Houses in north-eastern England: regionality and the British beyond, c. 1600-1750
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4 The garden house: merchant culture and identity in the early modern city5 Strangers below: an archaeology of distinctions in an eighteenth-century religious community; 6 The architecture of empire: Elizabethan country houses in Ireland; Part II The Second Empire: 1800-1945; 7 Crossing Offa's Dyke: British ideologies and late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ceramics in Wales; 8 An imperial people? Highland Scots, emigration and the British colonial world; 9 Death and remembrance in the colonial context; 10 Seeing each other: the colonial vision in nineteenth-century Victoria
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11 Nineteenth-century ceramics in Cape Town, South Africa12 At home in the bush: material culture and Australian nationalism; 13 The British material presence in Cyprus (1878-1960): display for whom? Visibility, accessibility and adoption; 14 Staging history, inventing heritage: the 'new pageantry' and British imperial identity, 1905-35; 15 The institutional ware found in the basement of the firm A. E. Vallerand, Québec; 16 Are we re-inventing the wheel? Archaeological heritage management in Sri Lanka under British colonial rule
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Concluding comments: Disruptive narratives? Multidimensional perspectives on 'Britishness'Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780203827529
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780415217002
Additional Edition:
Print version Archaeologies of the British : Explorations of Identity in the United Kingdom and Its Colonies 1600-1945
Language:
English
Keywords:
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