The Country Where My Heart Is: Historical Archaeologies of Nationalism and National Identity / edited by Alasdair Brooks and Natascha Mehler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mehler, Natascha, editor of compilation.

Brooks, Alasdair Mark, editor of compilation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology and history.

Archaeology--Political aspects--History.

Archaeology.

Nationalism--History.

Nationalism.

Archaeology--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2017.

Summary:

This international volume analyzes the archaeology of the period when modern national identities were initially formed and political nationalism was developed. Using the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and the beginning of the French Revolution (1789) as temporal bookends, the contributors view the concept of national identity as distinct from race and ethnicity.

Contents:

Introduction

Kilts and lederhosen: the historical archaeology of nationalism in Scotland and Bavaria / Alasdair Brooks and Natascha Mehler

Creation: ethnogenesis and identity formation

"Poetry is always truer than history": the curious parentage of Acadian archaeology / Jonathan Fowler and Stephane Noël

Defense against "The Turks": identity construction between lived experience and political discourse in the early-modern Habsburg lands / Katarina Predovnik

Ethnic identity, national consciousness, and archaeology: the case study of Carinthia/Austria / Stefan Eichert

"Vecino, Hispano y Mexicano": exploring civic identity in nineteenth-century New Mexico / Kelly L. Jenks

Manipulation: national identities, archaeology, and nationalism

The role of historical archaeology in the emergence of nationalist identities in the Celtic countries / Harold Mytum

Crossing the battlefield: archaeology, nationalism, and practice in Irish historical archaeology / Audrey Horning

Harald Bluetooth?s welfare state: the archaeology of Danish royalty and democracy / Margaret Comer

Historical ship archaeology in the shadow of historism and nationalism: a German perspective / Mike Belasus

"There is plenty of time to win this game, and to thrash the Spaniards too": deconstructing the nationalist histories of Plymouth, UK / Sarah Newstead

Reproducing the national families: archaeology and post-colonial reunion rituals, landmarks, and objects in New Sweden / Lu Ann De Cunzo

Absences: when creation fails

Archaeology without an Ottoman past: national archaeology and historical paradigms in Turkey / Fahri Dikkaya

Historical archaeology and Easter Island: cultural destruction and the aborted formation of national identity / Daniel Schávelzon and Ana Igareta.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8130-5291-2

OCLC:

983466109