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"""Rethinking Heritage"" brings together leading writers and thinkers to examine the ways in which ingrained assumptions about heritage are being challenged today. It explores key questions that surround heritage as a pressing political issue: what happens when the concept of culture is uncoupled from the nation? What meanings does heritage have in the context of the new societies and within the so-called new ""politics of difference""? How does history become heritage? What history should we preserve as heritage? The contributors draw upon visual, literary and documentary evidence to examine heritage's contested histories. The result is an anthology of critical writing which should be indispensable reading for those with an interest in cultural history, politics and European studies."

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Author:   Robert Shannan Peckham (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.404kg
ISBN:  

9781350178632

ISBN 10:   1350178632
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   17 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Politics of Heritage and Public Culture Robert Shannan Peckham Part 1: Heritage and the Politics of Difference 1 Representing Empire at the National Maritime Museum James Duncan 2 The Crusader Heritage: Portugal and Islam from Colonial to Post-colonial Identities Abdool Karim Vakil 3 The Translation of Heritage: Multiculturalism in the 'New'Europe Stephanos Stephanides Part II: Heritage and European Identities 4 A European Cultural Heritage? Reflections on a Concept and a Programme Peter Bugge 5 European Identity and the Heritage of National Cultures Thomas Risse 6 The Chansonde Roland andt he Invention of France Simon Gaunt 7 Contested Heritage and Identity Politics: The Industrial Museum of Schleswig Thorkild Kjaergaard Part III: Placing Heritage 1 Heritage and History: A Venetian Geography Lesson Denis Cosgrove 2 The Heritage of the Bismarck National Monument in the Weave of Historicity Karen Lang 3 'Teutonic' Landscape Heritage: The Search for National Identity in Early-twentieth-century German Landscape Design Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn 4 A Garden of Returns: Bernard Lassus and the Historical Composition of Place Stephen Bann Part IV: The Disinheritance of Heritage 5 The Museum of What You Shall Have Been Donald Preziosi 6 Heritage and Inheritors: The Literary Canon in Totalitarian Bulgaria Alexander Kiossev 7 Disinheritance Politics: Spatializing Abject Histories of World War IIS weden Michael Landzelius 8 Mourning Heritage: Memory, Trauma and Restitution Robert Shannan Peckham

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Robert Shannan Peckham has been Research Fellow, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge and Fellow, St Peter's College, Oxford.

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