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

"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. J. Laurence Hare reveals how the border regions of Schles...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hare, J. Laurence (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Antiquarians and patriots
  • National prehistories in the German-Danish wars
  • Discovery and rediscovery at Haithabu
  • Nationalism, science, and the search for origins
  • Prehistory and the popular imagination
  • Creating Nazi archaeology
  • The fate of archaeology in the borderlands
  • Conclusion.