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  • - International Origins of the Preservation Movement 1870-1930
     
    1 980

    In order to begin unlocking a very complex phenomenon that has helped to define our own age, this collection of essays brings together a transdisciplinary line-up of academics and practitioners to reconsider preservation's origins in the second half of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries.

  • - Inscription and Co-production
    av Laurent (Laval University Bourdeau & Maria Gravari-Barbas
    712 - 1 844

  • - Sanaa, Yemen
    av Dr. Michele Lamprakos
    760 - 2 195

  • av Dr. Valery Perry, Richard Carlton, Tina Wik, m.fl.
    660 - 1 844

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    - Perspectives on Pasargadae
     
    1 844

    This edited volume presents for the first time a broad, multi-disciplinary examination of Pasargadae by experts from both outside and within Iran. It specifically focuses on those disciplines that are absent from existing studies, such as ethnography, tourism and museum studies providing valuable insights into this fascinating place.

  • av Ronda L. Brulotte
    776 - 2 093

    Bringing together cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales.

  • av Dr. Ross J. Wilson
    738 - 2 307

    This book examines the heritage of the Great War in contemporary Britain. It addresses how the war maintains a place and value within British society through the usage of phrases, references, metaphors and imagery within popular, media, heritage and political discourse. Whilst the representation of the war within historiography, literature, art.

  • av Mechtild Rössler & Christina Cameron
    789 - 1 980

    This book examines the World Heritage system and its global impact through diverse prisms, including its normative frameworks, constituent bodies, programme activities, personalities and key issues. Concentrating on the period between 1972 and 2000.

  • - The English Lake District as Tourist Destination, 1750-2010
     
    2 307

    Bringing together leading writers from a wide range of disciplines, this book explores the tourism history and heritage of the Lake District and its construction as a cultural landscape from the mid eighteenth century to the present day It critically analyses the relationships between history, heritage, landscape.

  • - Explorations of History-Making, Commemoration & Heritage in Modern Times
    av Dr Mark McCarthy
    738 - 2 358

    Ireland's recent bailout by the EU and IMF has led to much lamenting over the loss of the sovereignty struggled for by earlier generations, in particular by the revolutionaries who rose against the unpopular political authorities in 1916. In light of the upcoming centenary in 2016, the time now seems ripe, therefore, to ask: why.

  • av John Western
    789 - 2 307

    Based on interviews with 80 men and 80 women ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world, this title provides insights into issues of identity, race, nationality, culture, politics, heritage and representation, giving a valuable view of what it means (and has meant over the past century) to be a European.

  • av Argyro Loukaki
    789 - 2 307

    Using illustrations of the Greek monuments and ruins, this book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic importance of Greek iconography for the Western world. It examines how Greek monuments are perceived as sublime national symbols and as a mythological and archetypal reference against which Western culture is measured.

  • - Locating Personal Pasts
    av Jeanne Kay Guelke
    796 - 2 386

    Highlights the tools and information sources used by geographers and their applications to family history research. This book examines family history as a socio-cultural practice, including the activities of tourism, archival research, and DNA testing.

  • - Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity
     
    2 195

    Seeks to illustrate the validity of multiple depictions of the Irish past, showing how scrutiny of heritage practices and meanings is so essential for illuminating our understanding of the present.

  • - New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape
    av Dr Yvonne Whelan
    789 - 2 136,-

    Explores the overlapping and often complex relationships between identity, memory, heritage and the cultural landscape. This book provides an overview of different approaches in the study of these relationships, combined with evidence from Ireland, England, Scotland and the United States.

  • - Visions of Space, Traditions of Place
    av Julia Brauch & Anna Lipphardt
    789 - 2 320

    Time and place play the central role in our understanding of Jewish civilisation, while place and space seem to be secondary categories at best. This anthology focuses on the manifold approaches to the perception and experience of Jewish places and hence sheds light on the diverse processes of Jewish place-making.

  • - Historical Lessons for Modern Development Planning
    av Ambe J. Njoh
    796 - 2 058

    The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate on why this should be the case, despite national and international efforts to reverse this situation. This book addresses issues which might provide some insights into the matter.

  • - Ruins and Imperial Legacies
    av Joao Sarmento
    738 - 2 543

    Forts are marks and wounds of the history of human violence. This book examines how this global but chameleonic network of forts can offer insights into both the geopolitics of Empire and their postcolonial legacies, and into the intersection of colonialism, memory, power and space in the postcolonial Lusophone world and beyond.

  • - Perspectives on Visuality and the Past
    av Steve Watson
    802 - 2 136,-

    The 'visual' has long played a crucial and formative role in structuring the experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. This edited collection explores the production, use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage within its broader social and political context.

  • - The Jewel of the German Past
    av Joshua Hagen
    2 136,-

    Since its discovery by German romantics and nationalists, Rothenburg has been an established icon of the German nation and its medieval past. By tracing Rothenburg's historical development as a place of national importance, this book examines the cultural politics of historical preservation and tourism in general.

  • - Counter-mapping Cultural Heritage
    av Professor Brian Graham
    2 307

    Taking the significant Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Council of Europe 2005) as it's starting point, this book presents pragmatic views on the rise of the local and the everyday within cultural heritage discourse and it examines ways in which authorised or 'expert' views of heritage can be challenged.

  • - Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas
     
    2 307

    Explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. This title shows how ethnic communities are able to use ethnic labelling of cultural production, ethnic economy or ethno-tourism facilities in order to change living conditions and to empower its members in ways previously impossible.

  • - Cultural Perspectives on Sense of Place
    av Rosy Szymanski
    860 - 2 358

    'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, commonly used in professional and domestic situations to describe the emotional attachment people have to the places they hold dear and into which they are rooted. This title reviews the meanings of 'sense of place', and where it is useful in the context of heritage management practice.

  • - Risk Society, Lived Cultural Heritage, Re-designing Reflexivity
    av Stephanie Koerner
    796 - 2 307

    Deals with critical themes in the development of archaeology as a reflexive, self-critical discipline in the modern world. This book explores ethical, political and cultural tensions and responsibilities which need to be addressed by archaeologists when working within networks of global ecologies and communities.

  • - History, Memory and the Highland Clearances
    av Laurence Gourievidis
    738 - 2 358

    Focusing on the interaction between history and memory and, in particular, on museums as a memory medium, this book deals with the memorialisation of the Highland Clearances over the twentieth century.

  • av John Pendlebury
    738 - 2 136,-

    Starting from the premise that heritage values are culturally and historically constructed, this book examines the effects of pluralist frameworks of value on how preservation is conceived. It describes the practicalities of managing the uncertainty and fluidity of the widely varying conceptions of heritage.

  • - Diverging Identities in a Dynamic Region
    av Rahil Ismail
    783 - 2 358

    Illustrated by a series of international case studies, this book demonstrates how the forces of 'postcolonialism' in their various manifestations are accelerating social change and creating new and 'imagined' communities, some of which are potentially disruptive and which may well threaten the longer term sustainability of Southeast Asia.

  • av Manuel Guardia
    738 - 2 358

    Brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing. Featuring case studies which illustrate diverse perspectives on linking culture, urbanism and history, this book reviews heritage and planning culture, looking at the experience of urbanism in the 'Old Historic City'.

  • av G. J. Ashworth
    738 - 1 989

    Bringing together case studies from Ireland, Holland, Canada, Germany and Mexico, this book examines the link between senses of place and senses of time. It suggests that not only do place identities change through time, but imagined pasts also provide resources which the present selects and packages for its own purposes.

  • - Material Ecologies of Citizenship
    av Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly
    789 - 2 307

    Within contemporary theorizations, memory is not often explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations. Using both visual and material culture, this book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain.

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