UID:
almafu_9959235373302883
Format:
1 online resource (309 p.)
ISBN:
1-134-66034-0
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1-282-31990-6
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9786612319907
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1-134-66035-9
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0-415-18806-7
Content:
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.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
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15 The archaeological study of post medieval gardens practice and theory16 Strangely familiar; 17 Negotiating our familiar pasts; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-18805-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-01909-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203019092
