Symbolic violence, resistance and the vectors of improvement in early nineteenth-century Ireland

World Archaeology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 392-407

  Orser Jr , Charles E ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Historical archaeology; Improvement; Ireland; Symbolic violence

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POWER RELATIONS; VIOLENCE;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

EID: 24644469575     PISSN: 00438243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00438240500168426     Document Type: Article

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