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The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamil...

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The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamil...

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The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamilakis.

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Full title

The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamilakis.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Date

2007.

Call Numbers

N938/213

Record Identifier

74VK3G6rvORZ

MMS ID

991023831909702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

xxii, 352 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents

1. Memories Cast in Marble: Introduction -- 2. The 'Soldiers', the 'Priests', and the 'Hospitals for Contagious Diseases': the Producers of Archaeological Matter-realities -- 3. From Western to Indigenous Hellenism: Antiquity, Archaeology, and the Invention of Modern Greece -- 4. The Archaeologist a...

Publication information

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Place of Publication

England

Date Published

2007.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

Focusing on the agency and power of materiality, he explores topics such as the role of antiquities and archaeology in the formation of the Greek nation and the foundation of the state; the links between colonial and national imagination; the archaeological creation of monumentalized landscapes such as the Athenian Acropolis; the role of key nation...

Alternative Titles

Full title

The nation and its ruins : antiquity, archaeology, and national imagination in Greece / Yannis Hamilakis.

Spine title

The nation and its ruins.

Authors, Artists and Contributors
Notes

General note

Classical presences.

Classical presences.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contextual Information

Other version (online)

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Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N938/213

Record Identifier

74VK3G6rvORZ

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK3G6rvORZ

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ISBN

0199230382 (hbk.) :

9780199230389 (hbk.) :

DDC

938

MMS ID

991023831909702626

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