Excavating Nations - Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands

Informationen zum Autor J. Laurence Hare is an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Arkansas. Klappentext Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War. Zusammenfassung Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1. Antiquarians and Patriots 2. National Prehistories in the German-Danish Wars 3. Discovery and Rediscovery at Haithabu 4. Nationalism, Science, and the Search for Origins 5. Prehistory and the Popular Imagination 6. Creating Nazi Archaeology 7. The Fate of Archaeology in the Borderlands Conclusion Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: J. Laurence Hare
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2015
• EAN: 9781442648432
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4843-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: German and European Studies; German and European Studies (H; German and European Studies; German and European Studies (H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity