Archaeologies of the British Explorations of Identity in the United Kingdom and Its Colonies 1600-1945

Name: Archaeologies of the British Explorations of Identity in the United Kingdom and Its Colonies 1600-1945
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ISBN: 9780415217002

ISBN-10: 0415217008

ISBN-13: 9780415217002

Edition: 2003

Authors: Susan Lawrence

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Archaeologists have had an abiding interest in the rise and fall of state-level societies. Now they are turning their attention to the British Empire. Informed by developments in historical archaeology and by postcolonial scholarship, the case-studies in this book look at the colonists themselves.

Book details

List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/30/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.53" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of figures


List of tables


List of contributors


Series Editors' foreword


Introduction: archaeological perspectives on the British and their empire




The First Empire: 1600-1800



Muffling inclusiveness: some notes towards an archaeology of the British




Civic ritual, townscape and social identity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Newcastle upon Tyne




Houses in north-eastern England: regionality and the British beyond, c. 1600-1750




The garden house: merchant culture and identity in the early modern city




Strangers below: an archaeology of distinctions in an eighteenth-century religious community




The architecture of empire: Elizabethan country houses in Ireland




The Second Empire: 1800-1945



Crossing Offa's Dyke: British ideologies and late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ceramics in Wales




An imperial people? Highland Scots, emigration and the British colonial world




Death and remembrance in the colonial context




Seeing each other: the colonial vision in nineteenth-century Victoria




Nineteenth-century ceramics in Cape Town, South Africa




At home in the bush: material culture and Australian nationalism




The British material presence in Cyprus (1878-1960): display for whom? Visibility, accessibility and adoption




Staging history, inventing heritage: the 'new pegeantry' and British Imperial identity, 1905-35




The institutional wave found in the basement of the firm A. E. Vallerand, Quebec




Are we re-inventing the wheel? Archaeological heritage management in Sri Lanka under British colonial rule



Concluding comments: Disruptive narratives? Multidimensional perspectives on 'Britishness'



Index