Geography, political economy and the ‘personality of Britain’
Matthew H. Johnson
SUMMARY: This paper engages with the historical archaeology of British Isles (With one or two exceptions, I follow usage Kearney 2006 in preferring term ‘British Isles’ to ‘Atlantic archipelago’, more ideologically loaded, but familiar, over arguably neutral obscure term.) as a whole. It advocates an approach that foregrounds geography and political economy, via quite simple traditional ways mapping variation, for example work Cyril Fox. seeks play archaeology’s strengths: rather than seeking abstract origins, it examines how practices later labelled ‘colonial’ emerged from intersection concrete material practices.
Post-medieval Archaeology