Towards world heritage : international origins of the preservation movement, 1870-1930 /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey : Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011. |
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| Description: | xx, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage, culture and identity Heritage, culture, and identity. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8547667 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword: facing the past
- Introduction: towards world heritage
- Part I. Case Studies
- Niagara Falls: preservation and the spectacle of Anglo-American accord
- Redeeming holy wisdom: Britain and St Sophia
- Early preservation efforts in Sri Lanka: William H. Gregory at Anuradhapura and Kandy
- Conflict and neglect: between ruin and preservation at the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem
- 'The shrine at Sulgrave': the preservation of the Washington ancestral home as an 'English Mount Vernon' and transatlantic relations
- Part II. Framing the Practice
- The law's delay? Preservation legislation in France, Germany and England, 1870-1914
- Heritage and its communities: reflections on the English experience in the 19th and 20th centuries
- America's early historic preservation movement (1850-1930) in a transatlantic context
- Conservation and the professions: the Swedish context 1880-1920
- Rethinking the 'powers of darkness': an anti-history of the preservation movement in Britain
- Bibliography
- Index
