Selective Remembrances: Archaeology in the Construction, Commemoration, and Consecration of National Pasts

by PLKohl (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $36.35

  Examining such nation-states as Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Israel, Russia, Ukraine, India, and Thailand, this book shows how states invoke the remote past to extol the glories of specific peoples or prove claims to ancestral homelands. It is suitable for archaeologists and historians.