Mahler, Fred
Archäologie und Nation: Kontexte der Erforschung „vaterländischen Alterthums“: Zur Geschichte der Archäologie in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz, 1800 bis 1860
During the first half of the 19th century, academic interest in local archaeology flourished significantly. Even at the time, calls for a national antiquarianism (‘vaterländische Altertumskunde’) drew explicitly on a new national consciousness that surged in the wake of the Wars of Liberation. Today, this phenomenon requires careful and critical analysis. How do the era’s ideas of nationhood relate to the rising interest in local antiquities? Which historical, political and social circumstances advanced this 'vaterländischeʼ (patriotic) archaeology? Archaeologists and historians from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic discuss these questions in their contributions.
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