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

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 294 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject Excavations (Archaeology) -- Great Britain.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Great Britain.
Great Britain -- Historiography.
Historiography.
Great Britain -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Tarlow, Sarah, 1967-
West, Susie, 1966-
Other Form: Print version: Familiar past?. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 (DLC) 98822700
ISBN 9780203019092
0203019091
9780415188050
0415188059
9780415188067 (paperback)
0415188067 (paperback)
9781134660353 (electronic book)
1134660359 (electronic book)
9786612319907 (electronic book)
6612319909 (electronic book)
0203019091
0415188059
0415188067 (paperback)