Title: Archaeologies of the British : explorations of identity in Great Britain and its colonies, 1600-1945 /
Authors: Lawrence, Susan, 1966-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Archaeology and history Great Britain Colonies Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) Great Britain Colonies Congresses.; National characteristics, British Historiography Congresses.; British Foreign countries Historiography Congresses.; Group identity Great Britain Historiography Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) Great Britain Congresses.; Archaeology and history Great Britain Congresses.; Archaeology and history Great Britain.; Excavations (Archaeology) Great Britain; Group identity Great Britain Historiography.; National characteristics, British Historiography.; Excavations (Archaeology) Great Britain Colonies.; Archaeology and history Great Britain Colonies.; British Foreign countries Historiography.; Great Britain Colonies Antiquities Congresses.; Great Britain Antiquities Congresses.; Great Britain Antiquities.; Great Britain Colonies Antiquities.
Contents: Introduction: archaeological perspectives on the British and their empire / Susan Lawrence -- Pt. I. The First Empire: 1600-1800 -- 1. Muffling inclusiveness: some notes towards an archaeology of the British / Matthew Johnson -- 2. Civic ritual, townscape and social identity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Newcastle upon Tyne / C. Pamela Graves -- 3. Houses in north-eastern England: regionality and the British beyond, c. 1600-1750 / Adrian Green -- 4. The garden house: merchant culture and identity in the early modern city / Roger Leech -- 5. Strangers below: an archaeology of distinctions in an eighteenth-century religious community / Ron Southern -- 6. The architecture of empire: Elizabethan country houses in Ireland / Eric Klingelhofer -- Pt. II. The Second Empire: 1800-1945 -- 7. Crossing Offa's Dyke: British ideologies and late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ceramics in Wales / Alasdair Brooks -- 8. An imperial people? Highland Scots, emigration and the British colonial world / James Symonds -- 9. Death and remembrance in the colonial context / Harold Mytum -- 10. Seeing each other: the colonial vision in nineteenth-century Victoria / Jane Lydon -- 11. Nineteenth-century ceramics in Cape Town, South Africa / Antonia Malan and Jane Klose -- 12. At home in the bush: material culture and Australian nationalism / Susan Lawrence -- 13. The British material presence in Cyprus (1878-1960): display for whom? Visibility, accessibility and adoption / Kylie Seretis -- 14. Staging history, inventing heritage: the 'new pegeantry' and British Imperial identity, 1905-35 / Peter Merrington -- 15. The institutional wave found in the basement of the firm A. E. Vallerand, Quebec / Claude Lafleur -- 16. Are we re-inventing the wheel? Archaeological heritage management in Sri Lanka under British colonial rule / Gamini Wijesuriya -- Concluding comments: Disruptive narratives? Multidimensional perspectives on 'Britishness' / Mary C. Beaudry.