| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 301 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Routledge studies in cultural history ; 21 |
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Routledge studies in cultural history ; 21.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 - interacted, breaking down languages, unearthing artifacts, measuring skulls and recording the customs of ""savage"" analogues. This was a decidedly national process: disciplines institutionalized on national levels, and their findings seen to have deep implications for the origins of the nation and its " |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Great Britain -- Historiography
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Ethnology -- France -- Historiography
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Ethnology -- Germany -- Historiography
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Ethnology -- Historiography
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Historiography
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Anthropologie
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Ethnologie
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 -- Historiography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056723
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France -- History -- To 987 -- Historiography
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Germany -- History -- To 843 -- Historiography
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France
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Germany
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135054700 |
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1135054703 |
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9780203489734 |
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020348973X |
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9781135054687 |
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1135054681 |
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9781135054694 |
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113505469X |
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9781138952607 |
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1138952605 |
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