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Item Number: 115122
Title: Towards World Heritage : International Origins of the Preservation Movement 1870-1930
Author: Hall, Melanie (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409407720
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 281pp. illus. Contents: Part 1 Case Studies: Niagara Falls: preservation and the spectacle of Anglo-American accord, Melanie Hall; Redeeming holy wisdom: Britain and St Sophia, Erik Goldstein; Early preservation efforts in Sri Lanka: William H. Gregory at Anuradhapura and Kandy, Anne M. Blackburn; Conflict and neglect: between ruin and preservation at the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, Raymond Cohen; 'The shrine at Sulgrave': the preservation of the Washington ancestral home as an 'English Mount Vernon' and transatlantic relations, T.G. Otte. Part 2 Framing the Practice: The law's delay? Preservation legislation in France, Germany and England, 1870–1914, Astrid Swenson; Heritage and its communities: reflections on the English experience in the 19th and 20th centuries, Chris Miele; America's early historic preservation movement (1850–1930) in a transatlantic context, Michael Holleran; Conservation and the professions: the Swedish context 1880–1920, Ola Wetterberg; Rethinking the 'powers of darkness': and anti-history of the preservation movement in Britain, Peter Mandler; Bibliography; Index.
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