The monumental challenge of preservation : the past in a volatile world /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cloonan, Michèle Valerie, 1955- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018] ©2018
Description:	xxiii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Monuments -- Conservation and restoration. Historic buildings -- Conservation and restoration. Cultural property -- Conservation and restoration. Cultural property -- Protection. Historic preservation.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11552293

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ISBN:	9780262037730 0262037734
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Illustration Credits
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Context
1. Introduction: We Are What We Preserve-and Don't Preserve
2. A Tale of Monuments in Two Cities
II. Cultural Genocide
3. To Destroy Culture: Raphael Lemkin's Lessons about Genocide and How They Relate to the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
4. Documenting Cultural Heritage in Syria
III. Approaches to Preservation
5. Collecting as Preservation
6. Worth Dying For? Richard Nickel and Historic Preservation in Chicago
IV. Information or Object?
7. What Are We Really Trying to Preserve: The Original or the Copy?
8. It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Some Thoughts on Digital Preservation
V. The Greening of Preservation
9. Sustainable Preservation
VI. Enduring, Ephemeral Preservation
10. Preservation: Enduring or Ephemeral?
11. Epilogue: Berlin as a City of Reconciliation and Preservation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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