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Item Number: 129252
Title: From Plunder to Preservation : Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940
Author: Swenson, Astrid ; Peter Mandler (eds)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780197265413
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 25cm., hardcover, 400pp., 50 illus. Contents: 1. The Heritage of Empire', Astrid Swanson. 2. Of Doubtful Antiquity, Edmund Richardson. 3. Officers and Gentlemen? Roman Britain and the British Empire, Mary Beard. 4. Unity out of Diversity? The Making of a Modern Christian Monument in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Robin Cormack. 5. Unholy Water: Archaeology, the Bible, and the First Aswan Dam, David Gange. 6. The Cotswolds in Jerusalem: Restoration and Empire, Simon Goldhill. 7. Remaking the Native in the South Pacific, South-East Asia and Southern Africa, Sujit Sivasundaram. 8. Monument Preservation and the Vexing Question of Religious Structures in Colonial India, Indra Sengupta. 9. Representing Ancient Egypt at Imperial High Noon (1882-1922): Egyptological Careers and Artistic Allegories of Civilization', Donald Malcolm Reid. 10. Publication as Preservation at a Remote Maya Site in the Early Twentieth Century, Donna Yates. 11. Plunder or Preservation? Negotiating an Anglo-American Heritage in the Later Nineteenth Century in the Old World and the New: Shakespeare's Birthplace, Niagara Fall and Carlyle's House, Melanie Hall. 12. Dying Americans: Race, Extinction and Conservation in the New World, Sadiah Qureshi. (Proceedings of the British Academy)
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