National-Socialist Archaeology in Europe and its Legacies (eBook)

Martijn Eickhoff, Daniel Modl, Katie Meheux, Erwin Nuijten (Herausgeber)

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2023 | 1. Auflage
691 Seiten
Springer-Verlag
978-3-031-28024-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited volume is dedicated to national-socialist archaeology as a Europe-wide phenomenon. It analyses national-socialist attempts to denationalize the archaeologies of European nations by creating a new unifying European archaeology on a racial basis.

 

From the beginning of the nineteenth century, archaeology began to develop into an important force behind processes of nation building. At the same time, structures of transnational academic collaboration contributed strongly to the internal dynamics of the research field, which was primarily organized on a national basis.

 

In those European countries that were confronted with national-socialist occupation and repression between 1939 and 1945, these transnational archaeological networks were to prove crucial for the development of national-socialist archaeological policies.

 

This volume will reveal how national-socialist archaeology was to anextent valued positively in its time as highly innovative, even influencing the archaeology of non-occupied countries. Although in the final instance, it generally failed to displace the national archaeologies in Europe, the volume also analyses the long-term impact of national-socialist rule on the development of European archaeology. How did the attempts to create a unified European archaeology after 1945 continue to influence networks, methods and terminologies, institutional structures, or popular representations of the early past?

Chapter “1” Is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via Springerlink.

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.8.2023
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 691 p. 96 illus., 15 illus. in color.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Schlagworte: archaeology & the spread of the national-socialist worldview • attempt to de-nationalize the archaeologies of Europe • complex entanglement between archaeology and society • national-socialist politics in Germany and occupied Europe • scholarly development in the history of archaeology
• ISBN-10: 3-031-28024-5 / 3031280245
• ISBN-13: 978-3-031-28024-5 / 9783031280245