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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tarlow, Sarah, 1967-

West, Susie, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Great Britain.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Great Britain--Historiography.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

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

15 The archaeological study of post medieval gardens practice and theory16 Strangely familiar; 17 Negotiating our familiar pasts; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-66034-0

1-282-31990-6

9786612319907

1-134-66035-9

0-415-18806-7

9780203019092

OCLC:

76898653