1:An alternative account of the history of archaeology in the nineteenth century
I. The Early Archaeology of the Great Civilizations
2:Antiquities and political prestige in the early modern era
3:The archaeology of the French Revolution
4:Archaeology and the 1820 liberal revolution: the past in the independence of the Greek and Latin American nations
II. The Archaeology of Informal Imperialism
5:Informal imperialism in Europe and the Ottoman Empire: the consolidation of the mythical roots of the West
6:Biblical archaeology
7:Informal imperialism beyond Europe: the archaeology of the great civilizations in Latin America, China, and Japan
III. Colonial Archaeology
8:Colonialism and archaeology in South and South-East Asia
9:Classical versus Islamic antiquities in colonial archaeology: the Russian Empire and French North Africa
10:Colonialism and the archaeology of the primitive
IV. National Archaeology in Europe
11:The early search for a national past in Europe (1789-1820)
12:Archaeology and the liberal revolutions (c.1820-1860): nation, race, and language in the study of Europe's past
13:Evolutionism and positivism (c.1860-1900)
14:Conclusions
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