An Archaeology of History and Tradition : Moments of Danger in the Annapolis Landscape

Moments of Danger in the Annapolis Landscape

By: Christopher N. Matthews

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Hardcover | 1 June 2002

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As the foundations of the modern world were being laid at the beginning of the 19th century, Annapolis, Maryland, identified itself as the Ancient City. This unusual appellation has served Annapolis into the present as a city that has consistently defined and redefined for itself what being ancient means. The process of historical recognition and preservation that has played out in Annapolis provides valuable insights into the way modern Americans in general have come to know and use the past. Though often conceived to be in opposition, modernity and tradition can be paired as cultural strategies that allow the modern world to be articulated with the tradition it hoped to replace. The multiple histories and historic landscapes derived from archaeological investigations in Annapolis are presented to show that the physical world below the surface of the city has been defined by constructions of modernity in tandem with the survival of certain traditions. This volume will be of interest to historical archaeologists, archaeological theorists, historical preservationists, historians of the middle-Atlantic states, and community historians.

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"Matthews interprets the archaeological record and formation of the record itself as a componentn through which past traditions were created, altered, and replaced. This provocative, specialized treatise [... ]contrasts and documents the shared interests of poststructural anthropology and field archaeology, joining other critical histories of archaeological practices."
(Choice, 40:5, 2003)
"This is a book full of powerful and important ideas. It includes an excellent discussion of the concepts and relationship among tradition, history, and authenticity. Archaeologists would do well to seriously consider Matthews' effort to frame a new approach to historical archaeology and how we might do archaeologies of history."
(Randall H. McGuire, Binghamton University in Journal of Anthropological Research, 59, 2003)

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History and Tradition, Archaeology and Authenticity	p. 1
The Struggles of the Past in the Present	p. 6
An Archaeology of History and Tradition	p. 12
Historical Process and Narrative in Annapolis, Maryland and the Chesapeake	p. 17
The Historical Process of Annapolis	p. 18
A Narrative History of Annapolis	p. 22
The Bordley-Randall Site and Archaeological Research Design	p. 25
Monuments: The Finishing of Annapolis	p. 31
Plantation Culture and Class Formation in the Chesapeake	p. 33
The Foundation of Thomas Bordley's House	p. 38
The Completions of Stephen Bordley	p. 44
The Time of Patriarchy	p. 50
Finishing Annapolis	p. 54
Memorials: The Making of the Ancient City	p. 63
The Making of a Modern Maryland	p. 64
Slavery and Southern Culture	p. 68
The Forgotten City: Annapolis, 1815-1845	p. 73
Being the Ancient City	p. 77
The Randall Landscape in the Era of Decline	p. 84
The Naval Academy and the Introduction of Modernity	p. 88
Conclusion: Conflict in Elite Identity	p. 92
Objects: The Modernization of the Ancient	p. 99
American Geography and the Commodification of Place	p. 100
Antimodernism and the Objectification of History	p. 104
The Modernization of Annapolis	p. 109
Modernizing the Ancient Landscape	p. 113
Conclusion: Necessaries and Nuisances in 1900	p. 125
Moments of Danger and the Practice of Archaeology	p. 131
Six Ruptures	p. 131
Against Archaeological Experience	p. 133
Notes	p. 139
References	p. 143
Index	p. 157
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An Archaeology of History and Tradition : Moments of Danger in the Annapolis Landscape

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