1st Edition

Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe

Edited By Margarita Díaz-Andreu, Timothy Champion Copyright 1996
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

Archaeologists from many different European countries here explore the very varied relationship between nationalistic ideas and archaeological activity through the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The resurgence of nationalism was one of the most prominent features of the European political scene in the 1990s, when this book was originally published. The past provides a large... Read more

1. Nationalism and Archaeology: An Introduction Margarita Diìaz-Andreu and Timothy Champion  2. The Fall of a Nation, the Birth of a Subject: The National Use of Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Denmark Marie Louise Stig Sørensen  3. French Archaeology: Between National Identity and Cultural Identity Alain Schnapp  4. Islamic Archaeology and the Origin of the Spanish Nation Margarita Diìaz-Andreu  5. Archaeology and Nationalism: The Portugese Case Carlos Fabião  6. Nationalism wihout a Nation: The Italian Case Alessandro Guidi  7. Three Nations or One? Britain and the National Use of the Past Timothy Champion  8. Building the Future on the Past: Archaeology and the Construction of National Identity in Ireland Gabriel Cooney  9. German Archaeology and its Relation to Nationalism and Racism Ingo Wiwjorra  10. "Drang Nach Westen"?: Polish Archaeology and National Identity Wlodzimierz Rączkowski  11. The Faces of Nationalist Archaeology in Russia Victor A. Shnirelman  12. Nationalism Doubly Oppressed: Archaeology and Nationalism in Lithuania Giedrius Puodžiūnas and Algirdas Girininkas  13. Is there National Archaeology Without Nationalism? Archaeological Tradition in Slovenia Božidar Slapšak and Predrag Novaković  14. Epilogue Miroslav Hroch

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Margarita Di?az-Andreu, Timothy Champion