Contested Sites
Subtitle: Commemoration, Memorial and Popular Politics in Nineteenth- Century Britain (Studies in Labour History)
Contributors: Paul A. Pickering (Editor); Alex Tyrrell (Editor)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780754632290
Subjects: General; Sociology; Historic sites; Cultural property; History; Great Britain; History: World; Government policy; Europe - Great Britain - General; British Isles; Industrial relations; Memorials, monuments; c 1800 to c 1900; Historical markers; Protection; 19th century; Conservation and restoration
First sentence: 'The genuine heroes of the times that have been', wrote William Godwin in an Essay on Sepulchres (1809), 'were the reformers, the instructors, and improvers of their contemporaries.'