Creating prehistory [electronic resource] : Druids, ley hunters and archaeologists in pre-war Britain / Adam Stout.

By: Stout, AdamContributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2008Description: viii, 318 p. : ill., mapsSubject(s): Anthropology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Archaeology -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Prehistoric peoples -- Great Britain | Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Great Britain | Great Britain -- AntiquitiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 936.1 LOC classification: GN17.3.G7 | S86 2008Online resources: Click to View
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [280]-303) and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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