Excavating Nations: Archaeology, Museums, and the German-Danish Borderlands

by J Laurence Hare and J. Laurence Hare

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 S nderjylland were critical both to the emergence of professional prehistoric archaeology and to conceptions of German and Scandinavian origins.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442648430
• ISBN13: 9781442648432
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.1"