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The familiar past? [electronic resource] : archaeologies of later historical Britain / edited by Sarah Tarlow and Susie West.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 294 p.) : illISBN:
  • 9781134660353 (electronic bk.)
  • 1134660359 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Familiar past?DDC classification:
  • 936.1 22
LOC classification:
  • DA1 .F36 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 15.01
Online resources:
Contents:
Processional city : some issues for historical archaeology / Roger Leech -- Material culture of food in early modern England c.1650-1750 / Sara Pennell -- Building Jerusalem : transfer-printed finewares and the creation of British identity / Alasdair Brooks -- Reconstructing castles and refashioning identities in Renaissance England / Matthew Johnson -- 'Familar' fraternity : the appropriation and consumption of medieval guildhalls in early modern York / Kate Giles -- Social space and the English country house / Susie West -- Archaeology of the workhouse : the changing uses of the workhouse buildings at St. Mary's, Southampton / Gavin Lucas -- Planning, development and social archaeology / Shane Gould -- Familiarity and contempt : the archaeology of the 'modern' / Keith Matthews -- Wormie clay and blessed sleep : death and disgust in later historic Britain / Sarah Tarlow -- 'The men that worked for England they have their graves at home' : consumerist issues within the production and purchase of gravestones in Victorian York / Susan Buckham -- Welsh cultural identity in nineteenth-century Pembrokeshire : the pedimented headstone as a graveyard monument / Harold Mytum -- Bloody meadows : the places of battle / John Carman -- Archaeological study of post-medieval gardens : practice and theory / Tom Williamson -- Strangely familiar / Sarah Tarlow -- Negotiating our 'familiar' pasts / Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Summary: This volume surveys material culture from 1550 to the present day. Fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, include discussion of issues such as the origins of modernity in urban contexts.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processional city : some issues for historical archaeology / Roger Leech -- Material culture of food in early modern England c.1650-1750 / Sara Pennell -- Building Jerusalem : transfer-printed finewares and the creation of British identity / Alasdair Brooks -- Reconstructing castles and refashioning identities in Renaissance England / Matthew Johnson -- 'Familar' fraternity : the appropriation and consumption of medieval guildhalls in early modern York / Kate Giles -- Social space and the English country house / Susie West -- Archaeology of the workhouse : the changing uses of the workhouse buildings at St. Mary's, Southampton / Gavin Lucas -- Planning, development and social archaeology / Shane Gould -- Familiarity and contempt : the archaeology of the 'modern' / Keith Matthews -- Wormie clay and blessed sleep : death and disgust in later historic Britain / Sarah Tarlow -- 'The men that worked for England they have their graves at home' : consumerist issues within the production and purchase of gravestones in Victorian York / Susan Buckham -- Welsh cultural identity in nineteenth-century Pembrokeshire : the pedimented headstone as a graveyard monument / Harold Mytum -- Bloody meadows : the places of battle / John Carman -- Archaeological study of post-medieval gardens : practice and theory / Tom Williamson -- Strangely familiar / Sarah Tarlow -- Negotiating our 'familiar' pasts / Charles E. Orser, Jr.

This volume surveys material culture from 1550 to the present day. Fourteen case studies, grouped under related topics, include discussion of issues such as the origins of modernity in urban contexts.

Description based on print version record.

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