Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past : the View from Southern Maryland.
In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches-archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical-to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Chicago :
University of Tennessee Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches-archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical-to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in which various groups, from patriots and politicians of the antebellum era to present-day archaeologists and preservationists, have transformed key landscapes into historical, indeed sacred, spaces. The sites King examines include the region's vanishing tob. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (290 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781572338883 1572338881 1282166484 9781282166486 9786613809551 6613809551 |