Sarah Tarlow, Susie West

Familiar Past?

Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9780415188067
• ISBN-10: 0415188067
• Artikelnr.: 21856782

Autorenporträt

Sarah Tarlow is Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. Susie West is the Managing Editor of East Anglian Archaeology at the University of East Anglia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents. Lists of figures. Contributors. 1. Introduction, Susie West The
Familiar Past. 2.The Processional City: Some Issue For Historical
Archaeology, Roger Leech 3. The Material Culture of Food in Early Modern
England Circa 1650-1750, Sara Pennell 4. Building Jerusalem:
Transfer-Printed Finewares and the Creation of British Identity, Alasdair
Brooks Familiar Spaces 5.Reconstructing Castles and Refashioning Identities
in Renaissance England, Matthew Johnson 6. The Familiar Fraternity: The
Appropriation and Consumption of Medieval Guildhalls in early Modern York,
Kate Giles 7. Social Space and the English Country House, Susie West
Breeding Contempt 8. The Archaeology of the Workhouse: The Changing Uses of
the Workhouse Buildings at St Mary's, Southampton, Gavin Lucas 9. Planning,
Development and Social Archaeology, Shane Gould 10. Familiarity and
Contempt: The Archaeology of the 'Modern', Keith Matthews Familar Spirits
11. Wormis Clay and Blessed Sleep: Death and Disgust in Later Historic
Britain, Sarah Tarlow 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, Susan Buckham 13. Welsh Cultural Identity in
Nineteenth Century Pembrokeshire: The Pedimented Headstone as a Graveyard
Monument, Harold Mytum Old Familiar Places 14.Bolldy Meadows: The Places of
Battle, John Carman 15. The Archaeological Study of Post-Medieval Gardens:
Practice and Theory, Tom Williamson Afterwords Across the Atlantic 16.
Strangely Familiar, Sarah Tarlow 17. Negotiating our 'Familiar Pasts',
Charles E. Orser. Jr Index.