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Excavating nations : archaeology, museums, and the German-Danish borderlands

Hare, J. Laurence, author

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Excavating Nations traces the history of archaeology and museums in the contested German-Danish borderlands from the emergence of antiquarianism in the early nineteenth-century to German-Danish reconciliation after the Second World War. J. Laurence Hare reveals how the border regions of Schleswig-Holstein and S²nderjylland were critical both to the emergence of professional prehistoric archaeology and to conceptions of German and Scandinavian origins. At the center of this process, Hare argues, was a cohort of amateur antiquarians and archaeologists who collaborated across the border to investigate the ancient past but were also complicit in its appropriation for nationalist ends. Excavating Nations follows the development of this cross-border network over four generations, through the unification of Germany and two world wars. Using correspondence and site reports from museum, university, and state archives across Germany and Denmark, Hare shows how these scholars negotiated their simultaneous involvement in nation-building projects and in a transnational academic community. --Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Subject: Archaeology Political aspects Germany History. / Archaeology Political aspects Denmark History. / Archaeology and state Germany History. / Archaeology and state Denmark History. / Borderlands Germany History. / Borderlands Denmark History. / National characteristics, German History. / National characteristics, Danish History. / Archaeology and state. / Archaeology Political aspects. / Borderlands. / National characteristics, Danish. / National characteristics, German. / Denmark. / Germany.
• ISBN: 9781442648432, 1442648430

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
CC101.G35 H37 2015	1	BOOK	GENERAL