Creating prehistory : Druids, ley hunters and archaeologists in pre-war Britain / Adam Stout.
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TextPublisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2008Description: 1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781444302929; 1444302922; 9781444302912; 1444302914Subject(s): Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Archaeology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Prehistoric peoples -- Great Britain | Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- Antiquities | Anthropology | Antiquities, Prehistoric | Archaeology | Prehistoric peoples | HISTORY -- Ancient -- General | Anthropology | Antiquities | Antiquities, Prehistoric | Archaeology | Prehistoric peoples | Great Britain | 1900-1999Genre/Form: Electronic books. | History. | Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Creating prehistory.DDC classification: 936.1 LOC classification: GN17.3.G7 | S86 2008ebOnline resources: Wiley Online Library | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-303) and index.
Manufacturing the past : the Victorian background -- Establishing the discipline -- Containing the amateurs -- Making progress -- The politics of socialism -- The diffusion heresy : nurture and the primitive -- Establishing diffusion -- A clash of narratives : diffusion and the archaeologists -- The esoteric revival -- The universal bond -- Stonehenge : a mecca of Celtic idealism -- The aesthetics of order -- The old straight track -- The straight track postal club -- Straight track to beyond -- Visions of civilization.
Creating Prehistory deals even-handedly and sympathetically with the creation of several different sorts of prehistory during the volatile period between the two World Wars.:.; Investigates the origins of professional archaeology in Britain during the inter-war period.; Brings to life many fascinating and controversial personalities and their creeds, including the archaeologists O.G.S. Crawford, Mortimer Wheeler and Gordon Childe; Grafton Elliot Smith and W.H.R. Rivers (of 'Regeneration' fame); Alfred Watkins and The Old Straight Track; and the thunderous George Watson Macgregor Reid, who.
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