Race, science, and the nation : reconstructing the ancient past in Britain, France and Germany /

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Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields - philology, archeology and anthropology - interact...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Manias, Chris
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge studies in cultural history ; 21.
Subjects:
To 1066
Ethnology > Great Britain > Historiography.
Ethnology > France > Historiography.
Ethnology > Germany > Historiography.
Ethnologie > Grande-Bretagne > Historiographie.
Ethnologie > France > Historiographie.
Ethnologie > Allemagne > Historiographie.
HISTORY > Ancient > General.
Ethnology > Historiography
Historiography
Anthropologie
Ethnologie
Great Britain > History > To 1066 > Historiography.
France > History > To 987 > Historiography.
Germany > History > To 843 > Historiography.
Allemagne > Histoire > Jusqu'à 843 > Historiographie.
France
Germany
Great Britain
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Unveiling the ancestry of peoples : tradition, language and ethnology, 1800-1860
  • Unearthing our forefathers : the growth of provincial archaeology, 1830-1860
  • The limits of history : defining nations, races and peoples, 1820-1850
  • Building the science of man : national anthropology and the ancient past, 1850-1870
  • Locating the peoples of prehistory : geology, archaeology and anthropology, 1840-1870
  • The fracturing of common origins : the nationalization of the anthropological past, 1871-1900
  • Tension and diffusion : the racial and cultural sciences, 1890-1914.

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