'What is so important about Archaeologies of the British is that it does begin to articulate the gaps and ruptures between such grand ideologies of being able to 'know all' and the messiness of materially lived lives.' – Post-Medieval Archaeology'An inspiring alternative pathway ... [and] a significant contribution to archaeological thought on ethnicity, empire, domination and resistance that will be of lasting interest to archaeologists of all periods.' – Antiquity

• List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Series editors’ foreword, Introduction: archaeological perspectives on the British and their empire, Susan Lawrence, Part I The First Empire: 1600–1800, Part II The Second Empire: 1800–1945, Index

'What is so important about Archaeologies of the British is that it does begin to articulate the gaps and ruptures between such grand ideologies of being able to 'know all' and the messiness of materially lived lives.' – Post-Medieval Archaeology'An inspiring alternative pathway ... [and] a significant contribution to archaeological thought on ethnicity, empire, domination and resistance that will be of lasting interest to archaeologists of all periods.' – Antiquity

• List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Series editors’ foreword, Introduction: archaeological perspectives on the British and their empire, Susan Lawrence, Part I The First Empire: 1600–1800, Part II The Second Empire: 1800–1945, Index

'What is so important about Archaeologies of the British is that it does begin to articulate the gaps and ruptures between such grand ideologies of being able to 'know all' and the messiness of materially lived lives.' – Post-Medieval Archaeology'An inspiring alternative pathway ... [and] a significant contribution to archaeological thought on ethnicity, empire, domination and resistance that will be of lasting interest to archaeologists of all periods.' – Antiquity

• List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Series editors’ foreword, Introduction: archaeological perspectives on the British and their empire, Susan Lawrence, Part I The First Empire: 1600–1800, Part II The Second Empire: 1800–1945, Index