| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-303) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Archaeology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Prehistoric peoples -- Great Britain
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Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Great Britain
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Anthropology
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Antiquities
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Antiquities, Prehistoric
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Archaeology
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Prehistoric peoples
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Antiquities.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056606
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781444302929 |
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1444302922 |
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9781444302912 |
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1444302914 |
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1282124161 |
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9781282124165 |
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9786612124167 |
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6612124164 |
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