Heritage in the modern world
Subtitle: historical preservation in global perspective
By: edited by Paul Betts and Corey Ross
Series: Past and present supplements -- supplement 10, 2015; Past and present supplements -- v. 10.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780198733584
Subjects: Collective memory; Cultural property; Protection; Conservation and restoration; Architecture
Other titles: Heritage in the modern world
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modern historical preservation : towards a global perspective / Paul Betts and Corey Ross; title: Crusader heritages and imperial preservation / Astrid Swenson; title: The inheritance of empire and the ruins of Rome in French colonial Algeria / Caroline Ford; title: The ruins of preservation: conserving ancient Egypt 1880-1914 / David Gange; title: The warden of world heritage: UNESCO and the rescue of the Nubian monuments / Paul Betts; title: Japan's monument problem : Ise Shrine as metaphor / Jordan Sand; title: Culture-keeping as state action: bureaucrats, administrators, and monuments in colonial India / Indra Sengupta; title: Contentious heritage : the preservation of churches and temples in communist and post-communist Russia and China / S. A. Smith; title: Tropical nature as global patrimoine : imperialism and international nature protection in the early twentieth century / Corey Ross; title: Colonial histories of heritage : legislative migrations and the politics of preservation / Paul Basu and Vinita Damodaran; title: Creatures enshrined: wild animals as bearers of heritage / Peter Coates; title: History, heritage, and revolution : Mexico, c.1910-c.1940 / Alan Knight; title: Idols, altars, slippers, and stockings : heritage debates and displays in nineteenth-century Chile / Patience A. Schell; title: "Don't make Dublin a museum": urban heritage and modern architecture in Dublin, 1957-71 / Erika Hanna.