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The Origins of the English (Duckworth Debates in Archaeology)
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Product Description
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 - historical, archaeological, linguistic and most recently genetic. This has caused problems of interdisciplinary communication. In this book Catherine Hills carefully and succinctly unravels these different perceptions and types of evidence to assess how far it is really possible to understand when and how the people living in south and east Britain became 'English'.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #406177 in Books
- Published on: 2003-02-13
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
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About the Author
Catherine Hills is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Cambridge.
Customer Reviews
short and sweet
This is a pretty good book when you are tight for time for research. It introduces mainly the problems that historians and archaeologists face when dealing with the origins of the English people due to the lack of or too much non-corroborating evidence - which pretty much applies to historians and archaeologists of all fields. not for light reading of facts, this is more on how interpretation works.
