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Origins of the Civilization of Angkor
Av Charles Higham, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2014
561 kr
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The Origins of the Civilization of Angkor reflects the results of a research programme conducted by Charles Higham over the last twenty years, highlighting much entirely new, and occasionally surprising, information and providing a distinct perspective on cultural change over two millennia. The …
Archaeology and Text
Av John Moreland, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2001
399 kr
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"Archaeology and Text" challenges traditional assumptions about the relationship between history and archaeology by re-evaluating the role of artefacts and documents in the reconstruction of the historical past. Previous attempts to create a rapprochement between the disciplines have been …
Loot, Legitimacy and Ownership
The Ethical Crisis in Archaeology
Av Colin Renfrew, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2000
399 kr
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In this account, Colin Renfrew illustrates how the most precious product of archaeology is the information that controlled and well-published excavations can give us about our shared human past. Clandestine and unpublished digging of archaeological sites for gain - ie looting - destroys the context …
Lost Civilization
The Contested Islamic Past in Spain and Portugal
Av James L Boone, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2009
399 kr
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Al-Andalus, the Iberian Islamic civilization centred on Cordoba in the tenth and eleventh centuries, has been a 'lost' civilization in several respects. Its history suppressed or denied for much of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it was regarded as a kind of 'historical parenthesis' with no …
Houses and Society in the Later Roman Empire
Häftad, 2010
399 kr
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Houses are often assumed to be reliable mirrors of society, fossils of family structures, social hierarchies and mental maps of worlds now vanished. This is particularly true of the elite houses of the third to sixth centuries AD, which have been read as material symptoms of Rome's decline. The …
Dark Age Economics
Origins of Towns and Trade, A.D.600-1000
Häftad, 1989
530 kr
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It was in the second half of the first millennium A.D. that northern Europe took on the basic configuration that it now presents. Recently a wealth of new archaeological evidence has emerged to enable historians to assess the growth of international trade and the evolution of towns in this crucial …
Muhammad, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe
Av Richard Hodges, David Whitehouse
Häftad, 1998
399 kr
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Debating the Archaeological Heritage
Av Robin Skeates, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2000
399 kr
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Throughout the world, competing interest groups lay claim to the material remains of the past. Archaeologists, developers, indigenous 'first peoples' , looters, museum curators, national government officals, New Age worshippers, private collectors, tourists - all want their share. This introduction …
Towns and Trade in the Age of Charlemagne
Av Richard Hodges, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2000
399 kr
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This text examines the important continuing discussion of the rebirth of urbanism in Carolingian Europe. Drawing upon a good deal of new archaeological evidence from southern and northern Europe, Richard Hodges looks at the end of towns in Roman antiquity, the phenomenon of the Dark Age emporium, …
Beyond Celts, Germans and Scythians
Archaeology and Identity in Iron Age Europe
Av Peter S. Wells, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2001
399 kr
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Who were the Iron Age peoples of Europe? Celts, Germans, Scythians and others are among the names that come to mind. But such names, and the characteristics associated with them, come to us from outside observers - Greek and Roman writers - not from the native peoples themselves. To understand how …
Origins of the English
Av Catherine Hills, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2003
399 kr
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National origins remain as important as they have ever been to our sense of identity. Accounts of the early history of the peoples of Europe, including the English, are key tools in our construction of that identity. National identity has been studied through a range of different types of evidence …
Villa to Village
The Transformation of the Roman Countryside
Av Riccardo Francovich, Richard Hodges m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
356 kr
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"Villa to Village" challenges the historical view that hilltop villages in Italy were first founded in the tenth century. Drawing upon recent excavations, the authors show that the makings of the medieval village lie in the demise of the Roman villa in late antiquity. The book describes the lively …
State Formation in Early China
Av Li Liu, Xingcan Chen m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
399 kr
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A study that makes use of an interdisciplinary approach to challenge traditional theories of state formation in China and promote debate on early Chinese history. Analyzing data from archaeology, geology, cultural geography, ethnohistory and ancient texts, the authors show how the procurement of …
Roman Countryside
Av Stephen L. Dyson, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2003
356 kr
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In this work, Stephen Dyson provides a new synthesis, describing current research on the Roman countryside within a topological rather than a geographical or historical framework. He first examines the Roman villa, looking at changing interpretations of the villa and the ways they have been shaped …
Shipwreck Archaeology of the Holy Land
Processes and Parameters
Av Sean A. Kingsley, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2004
399 kr
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This intriguing book is the first to explore the potential of shipwrecks discovered off the Holy Land to rewrite social and economic history. Ancient myths and modern misconceptions about Byzantine Palestine's maritime compatibility are radically reconsidered by discussing cargoes in relation to …
Social Evolution
Av Mark Pluciennik, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2005
399 kr
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The concept of social evolution in its modern form became widespread 250 years ago as part of the Enlightenment, and yet it still structures the thinking of academics, politicians and the public in a myriad ways. Hunter-gatherers become the repository of the natural or primitive; civilisation and …
Against Cultural Property
Archaeology,Heritage and Ownership
Av John Carman, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2005
399 kr
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This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme which is the subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology. If 'all property is theft', then cultural property is nothing less than the theft of culture. The term 'cultural …
Combat Archaeology
Material Culture and Modern Conflict
Av John Schofield, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2005
399 kr
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This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme which is the subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology. The archaeology of recent conflict is a fast-moving field of research. It is challenging and provocative. It …
Goodbye to the Vikings?
Re-Reading Early Medieval Archaeology
Häftad, 2006
530 kr
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"In Goodbye to the Vikings?", Richard Hodges uses new archaeological evidence to re-read the familiar history of the early Middle Ages. Taking his examples from the fifth to the tenth centuries, he re-examines many familiar themes, including the identity of King Arthur, the Pirenne thesis, Marc …
Archaeology and the Pan-European Romanesque
Häftad, 2007
399 kr
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Romanesque is the style name given to the art and architecture of Europe in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. First used in the early nineteenth century to express the perceived indebtedness of the visual-artistic and architectural cultures of this period to their Classical antecedents, the term …
Rethinking Wetland Archaeology
Av Robert Van de Noort, Aidan O'Sullivan m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
399 kr
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This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme, which is the subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology. Wetland archaeology has provided some of the most exciting discoveries in world archaeology, from bog bodies in …
Archaeology
The Conceptual Challenge
Av Timothy A. Insoll, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2007
399 kr
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This series of short volumes, each devoted to a theme which is the subject of contemporary debate in archaeology, ranges from issues in theory and method to aspects of world archaeology.The central question this book seeks to explore is this: Are we trying to reconstruct a past in our own image, …
Vessels of Influence
China and the Birth of Porcelain in Medieval and Early Modern Japan
Av Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2012
399 kr
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"Vessels of Influence", while examining in depth the role of Chinese ceramics in Japan, also delves into the meaning, motivation for, and rapid development of Japanese porcelain from many angles, including archaeology, heirloom and documentary evidence. The political and fiscal advantage that one …
Museums and the Construction of Disciplines
Art and Archaeology in Nineteenth-century Britain
Av Christopher Whitehead, Richard Hodges
Häftad, 2009
399 kr
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Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual differentiation and physical separation of …
Archaeology and State Theory
Subjects and Objects of Power
Av Bruce Routledge, Richard Hodges
Inbunden, 2013
1386 kr
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After neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state? Over the past two decades archaeological research has shifted decisively from check-list identifications of the state as an evolutionary type to studies of how power and authority were constituted in specific polities. Developing …
Dark Age Economics
A New Audit
Häftad, 2012
443 kr
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This new volume enlarges on the debate that still continues almost thirty years after Richard Hodges' ground-breaking "Dark Age Economics" was first published. Richard Hodges focuses on the archaeological, anthropological and historical models of gift and commodity exchange, pertinent to Europe …
Heritage, Communities and Archaeology
Av Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
399 kr
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This book traces the development of 'community archaeology', identifying both its advantages and disadvantages by describing how and why tensions have arisen between archaeological and community understandings of the past. The focus of this book is the conceptual disjunction between heritage and …
