Nationalism and archaeology in Europe: an introduction / Margarita Diaz-Andreu & Timothy Champion --- The fall of a nation, the birth of a subject:the national use of archaeology in nineteenth-century Denmark / Marie Louise Stig Sorensen --- French archaeology: between national identity and cultural identity / Alain Schnapp --- Islamic archaeology and the origin of the Spanish nation / Margarita Diaz-Andreu --- Archaeology and nationalism: the Portuguese case / Carlos Fabiao --- Nationalism without a nation: the Italian case / Alessandro Guidi --- Three nations or one? Britain and the national use of the past / Timothy Champion --- Building the future on the past: archaeology and the construction of national identity in Ireland / Gabriel Cooney --- German archaeology and its relation to nationalism and racism / Ingo Wiwjorra --- "Drang nach Westen"?: Polish archaeology and national identity / Wlodzimierz Raczkowski --- The faces of nationalist archaeology in Russia / Victor A. Shnirelman --- Nationalism doubly oppressed: archaeology and nationalism in Lithuania / Giedrius Puodziunas & Algirdas Girininkas --- Is there national archaeology without nationalism? Archaeological tradition in Slovenia / Bozidar Slapsak & Predrag Novakovic --- Epilogue / Miroslav Hroch
Summary
In this book, archaeologists from many different European countries have come together to explore the varied relationship between nationalistic ideas and archaeological activity throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The resurgence of nationalism has been a prominent feature of the European political scene in the 1990s. The collapse of the Soviet Union has given rise to the re-establishment of a sense of ethnic identity for many peoples, while in western Europe the continuing debate about federalization has concentrated attention on questions of individual national identity. This comprehensive examination of a host of fascinating issues will be essential reading for archaeologists but will also interest historians and others studying the interaction between perceptions of the past and the pursuit of nationalistic politics
