The Familiar Past?: Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain

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Sarah Tarlow, Susie West
Taylor & Francis US, 1999 - 294 Seiten

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.

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Introduction
1
some issues for historical archaeology
19
The material culture of food in early modern England
35
transferprinted finewares and
51
Reconstructing castles and refashioning identities in
69
the appropriation and consumption
87
Social space and the English country house
103
the changing uses
125
Planning development and social archaeology
140
the archaeology of the modern
155
death and disgust in later
183
The men that worked for England they have their graves
199
the places of battle
233
Strangely familiar
263
Index
287
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