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Author King, Julia A

Title Archaeology, Narrative, and the Politics of the Past : the View from Southern Maryland
Published Chicago : University of Tennessee Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (290 pages)
Contents Preface; 1. The Bounds of History; 2. How the Past Became a Place; 3. The Transient Nature of All Things Sublunary; 4. Collecting Utopia; 5. The Past Is a Rural Landscape; 6. Commemorative Hauntings; 7. Beyond Storytelling; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary In this innovative work, Julia King moves nimbly among a variety of sources and disciplinary approaches-archaeological, historical, architectural, literary, and art-historical-to show how places take on, convey, and maintain meanings. Focusing on the beautiful Chesapeake Bay region of Maryland, King looks at the ways in which various groups, from patriots and politicians of the antebellum era to present-day archaeologists and preservationists, have transformed key landscapes into historical, indeed sacred, spaces. The sites King examines include the region's vanishing tob
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Archaeology -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Archaeology -- Maryland
Historic sites -- Psychological aspects
Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration -- Maryland
Collective memory.
Antiquities in popular culture -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)
Antiquities in popular culture -- Maryland
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY -- General.
Antiquities in popular culture
Archaeology
Collective memory
Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration
Historic sites -- Psychological aspects
SUBJECT Saint Marys City (Md.) -- History
Subject Maryland
Maryland -- Saint Marys City
United States -- Chesapeake Bay Region
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012020591
ISBN 9781572338883
1572338881
1282166484
9781282166486
9786613809551
6613809551