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  • The Archaeology of Race
    Debbie Challis
    How much was archaeology founded on prejudice? The Archaeology of Race explores the application of racial theory to interpret the past in Britain during the late Victorian and Edwardian period. It investigates how material culture from ancient Egypt and Greece was used to validate the construction of racial hierarchies. Specifically focusing on Francis Galton’s ideas around inh...
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    66,55 €

  • From the Harpy Tomb to the Wonders of Ephesus
    Debbie Challis
    According to a historian of the time, the huge influx of antiquities into the British Museum in the nineteenth century was the result of ’English pertinacity and Oriental cunning’. This book explores the fascinating stories behind the collection of antiquities from the Ottoman Empire between 1840 and 1880. The men who led these collecting expeditions published journals detailin...
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    66,87 €