Lawrence, S., ed. (2003). Archaeologies of the British:. London: Routledge.

Title:

Archaeologies of the British:

Subtitle:

explorations of identity in Great Britain and its colonies 1600--1945

Series:

One World Archaeology

Volume:

Number of Pages:

320

Publication Type:

Monograph Chapter (in Series)

Abstract:

Informed by developments in historical archaeology and by postcolonial scholarship, the case-studies in this volume look at the colonists of the British Empire. Beginning with the early English colonisation of Ireland and Virginia, the contributors examine the interplay of objects and identity in Scotland and Wales, regional England, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Cyprus, and Sri Lanka. The evidence drawn upon includes vernacular architecture, landscapes and objects of everyday life. The papers demonstrate that Britishness has never been a fixed identity, and that material culture can challenge historical and contemporary understandings of Britishness. Includes

Editor:

Susan Lawrence

Issue Editor:

Susan Lawrence

Publisher:

Routledge

Year of Publication:

2003

ISBN:

0-415-21700-8

Subjects / Periods:

	Archaeology (BIAB)
	Colonialism [Roman, British Etc] (BIAB)

Note:

Is Portmanteau: 1

Source:

BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))

Created Date:

06 Jul 2004

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Chapter Title	Author / Editor	Page Start/End
Introduction: archaeological perspectives on the British and the...	Susan Lawrence	1 - 13
Muffling inclusiveness: some notes towards an archaeology of the British	Matthew Johnson	17 - 30
Civic ritual, townscape and social identity in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Newcastle upon Tyne	C P Graves	31 - 54
Houses in north-eastern England: regionality and the British beyond, c. 1600--1750	Adrian Green	55 - 75
The garden house: merchant culture and identity in the early modern ...	Roger H Leech	76 - 86
Strangers below: an archaeology of distinctions in an eighteenth-ce...	Ron Southern	87 - 101
The architecture of empire: Elizabethan country houses in Ireland	Eric Klingelhöfer	102 - 115
Crossing Offa's Dyke: British ideologies and late eighteenth- and ninete...	Alasdair M Brooks	119 - 137
An imperial people?; Highland Scots, emigration and the British colonia...	James Symonds	138 - 155
Death and remembrance in the colonial context	Harold C Mytum	156 - 173
Staging history, inventing heritage: the `new pageantry' and British imperial identity,...	Peter Merrington	239 - 258
Concluding comments: disruptive narratives? Multidimensional perspectiv...	Mary C Beaudry	291 - 295