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Book The Antiquarians of the Nation

Download or read book The Antiquarians of the Nation written by Francesca Zantedeschi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Antiquarians of the Nation, Francesca Zantedeschi explores how the works of Roussillon's nineteenth-century archaeologists and philologists, who retrieved and enhanced the Catalan specificities of the region, contributed to the early stages of a ‘national’ (Catalan) cultural revival.

Book The Antiquarians of the Nation

Download or read book The Antiquarians of the Nation written by Francesca Zantedeschi and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this thesis is to formulate a coherent history of Roussillon in the nineteenth century in an attempt to explain the causes for the weaknesses underpinning its Catalan cultural revival. In order to do so, I will commence by broaching the subject of the French process of nation-building, to illustrate how the initial Roussillonese studies were stimulated by research and inquiries into "national antiquities". Such studies were indeed promoted by consecutive French governments with the aim of classifying, documenting and preserving all the artistic, linguistic and architectural "monuments" of the French nation. My research then proceeds to examine the Occitan-Catalan cultural context, within which the Roussillonese linguistic and cultural revival should be inserted and analysed. Moreover, I shall attempt to quantify the contribution made by Roussillonese scholars to the reflection on the Catalan language during the nineteenth century, as well as the extent and type of knowledge they possessed of Catalan and how they investigated it.

Book Producing the Past

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  • Author : Lucy Peltz
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-12-20
  • ISBN : 0429776772
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Producing the Past written by Lucy Peltz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1999, this volume examines antiquarianism which had its roots in Renaissance thought and was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The antiquarian work of collecting, compiling and presenting material which exposed the past was seminal to the formation of social and national identities. These essays evaluate the cultural and poltical implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history. With a preface by Stephen Bann and introduced by Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz, Producing the Past has contributions from Stephen Bending, Alexandrina Buchanan, Susan A. Crane, David Haycock, Maria Grazia Lolla, Heather MacLennan, Martin Myrone, Lucy Peltz, Annegret Pelz, Sam Smiles and Johann Reusch.

Book A Guide to the Resources of the American Antiquarian Society

Download or read book A Guide to the Resources of the American Antiquarian Society written by American Antiquarian Society (Worcester, Massachusetts, City of) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antiquarians of Nineteenth Century Japan

Download or read book Antiquarians of Nineteenth Century Japan written by Hiroyuki Suzuki and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan’s rapid modernization. Originally published in Japanese, Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan looks at the approach toward object-based research across the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods, which were typically kept separate, and elucidates the intellectual continuities between these eras. Focusing on the top-down effects of the professionalizing of academia in the political landscape of Meiji Japan, which had advanced by attacking earlier modes of scholarship by antiquarians, Suzuki shows how those outside the government responded, retracted, or challenged new public rules and values. He explores the changing process of evaluating objects from the past in tandem with the attitudes and practices of antiquarians during the period of Japan’s rapid modernization. He shows their roots in the intellectual sphere of the late Tokugawa period while also detailing how they adapted to the new era. Suzuki also demonstrates that Japan's antiquarians had much in common with those from Europe and the United States. Art historian Maki Fukuoka provides an introduction to the English translation that highlights the significance of Suzuki’s methodological and intellectual analyses and shows how his ideas will appeal to specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Book A Guide to the Resources of the American Antiquarian Society

Download or read book A Guide to the Resources of the American Antiquarian Society written by American Antiquarian Society and published by Worcester, Mass., The Society. This book was released on 1937 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Trophies of Time

Download or read book The Trophies of Time written by Graham Parry and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1996-02-22 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trophies of Time presents the first comprehensive survey of the English antiquarians of the seventeenth century. In Britain throughout the period there was a persistent curiosity about the origins of the nation and its institutions, inspired initially by the publication in 1586 of Camden's Britannia. A remarkable campaign of scholarship developed, which attempted to imagine the vanished societies that had once flourished there. What could be known of prehistoric Britain from its monuments and language? Could the lay-out of Roman Britain be recovered? Was it possible somehow to retrieve the language, religion, and laws of Saxon England? The answers to these questions often had a bearing on contemporary issues of church and state and also enabled citizens to gain a new insight into the character and identity of their nation. Many of the most learned men of the age addressed themselves to antiquarian enquiry and this book presents lively and fascinating portraits of Camden, Cotton, Selden, Spelman, Ussher, Dugdale, Aubrey, and many other lesser-known scholars.

Book Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe

Download or read book Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe written by Margarita Díaz-Andreu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 supply of ideas and images to support the claims of national identity deeply rooted in remote generations. The remote past revealed by archaeology also plays a part – heroes, heroines, golden ages long disappeared, objects to admire, and sites to provoke the memory, all called on to further the cause of nationalism. Drawing on the authoritative insights of the indigenous contributors, this book examines the issues throughout modern Europe. All of the chapters share a concern to see archaeology and the study of the past as intimately related to contemporary social and political questions. The present shapes the way we think about the past but the past also provides us with evidence for thinking about the present. These issues are timeless and this comprehensive examination of a host of issues remains important for historians and those pursuing nationalistic politics.

Book A Guide to the Resources of the American Antiquarian Society

Download or read book A Guide to the Resources of the American Antiquarian Society written by Library of the american antiquarian society (Worcester, Mass., U.S.A.) and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeologia Americana

Download or read book Archaeologia Americana written by American Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1820 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Germany s Ancient Pasts

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  • Author : Brent Maner
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2018-11-27
  • ISBN : 022659307X
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Germany s Ancient Pasts written by Brent Maner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Germany, Nazi ideology casts a long shadow over the history of archaeological interpretation. Propaganda, school curricula, and academic publications under the regime drew spurious conclusions from archaeological evidence to glorify the Germanic past and proclaim chauvinistic notions of cultural and racial superiority. But was this powerful and violent version of the distant past a nationalist invention or a direct outcome of earlier archaeological practices? By exploring the myriad pathways along which people became familiar with archaeology and the ancient past—from exhibits at local and regional museums to the plotlines of popular historical novels—this broad cultural history shows that the use of archaeology for nationalistic pursuits was far from preordained. In Germany’s Ancient Pasts, Brent Maner offers a vivid portrait of the development of antiquarianism and archaeology, the interaction between regional and national history, and scholarly debates about the use of ancient objects to answer questions of race, ethnicity, and national belonging. While excavations in central Europe throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries fed curiosity about the local landscape and inspired musings about the connection between contemporary Germans and their “ancestors,” antiquarians and archaeologists were quite cautious about using archaeological evidence to make ethnic claims. Even during the period of German unification, many archaeologists emphasized the local and regional character of their finds and treated prehistory as a general science of humankind. As Maner shows, these alternative perspectives endured alongside nationalist and racist abuses of prehistory, surviving to offer positive traditions for the field in the aftermath of World War II. A fascinating investigation of the quest to turn pre- and early history into history, Germany’s Ancient Pasts sheds new light on the joint sway of science and politics over archaeological interpretation.

Book The Crimsoned Hills of Onondaga

Download or read book The Crimsoned Hills of Onondaga written by De Villo Sloan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result, the reader gains fresh and surprising insights into Euro/Native American relations and the formation of U.S. national identity pertaining to culture. At the same time, the book enlarges the domain of American Romanticism and sheds new light on the ideological use of gothic fiction. Focusing on New York State and the Iroquois, The Crimsoned Hills of Onondaga includes studies of De Witt Clinton’s A Memoir on the Antiquities of the Western Part of the State of New York (1818); Josiah Priest’s American Antiquities, And Discoveries in the West (1833); Joshua V.H. Clark’s Onondaga (1849); and E. G. Squier’s Aboriginal Monuments of the State of New York (1849). The Cardiff Giant hoax is re-examined along with other 19th century archaeological frauds associated with antiquarians."--pub. desc.

Book Proceedings Of The American Antiquarian Society  Volume 16

Download or read book Proceedings Of The American Antiquarian Society Volume 16 written by American Antiquarian Society and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-04-13 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Proceedings Of The American Antiquarian Society

Download or read book Proceedings Of The American Antiquarian Society written by American Antiquarian Society and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society written by American Antiquarian Society and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Excavating Nations

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  • Author : J. Laurence Hare
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 1442648430
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book Excavating Nations written by J. Laurence Hare and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Schleswig-Holstein and Snderjylland were critical both to the emergence of professional prehistoric archaeology and to conceptions of German and Scandinavian origins. At the center of this process, Hare argues, was a cohort of amateur antiquarians and archaeologists who collaborated across the border to investigate the ancient past but were also complicit in its appropriation for nationalist ends. Excavating Nations follows the development of this cross-border network over four generations, through the unification of Germany and two world wars. Using correspondence and site reports from museum, university, and state archives across Germany and Denmark, Hare shows how these scholars negotiated their simultaneous involvement in nation-building projects and in a transnational academic community. --Provided by publisher.

Book The American Antiquarian Society  1812 2012

Download or read book The American Antiquarian Society 1812 2012 written by Philip F. Gura and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the development of the library and the role the Society's librarians have played as collectors, scholars of American writing and publishing, and stewards of the nation's history. Readers will meet Isiah Thomas and his successors at the Society's helm.