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  • Imperial Boredom

    Monotony and the British Empire

    de Jeffrey A. Auerbach ...
    Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated account suggests ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition of 1851

    de Jeffrey A. Auerbach ...
    Britain, the Empire, and the World at the Great Exhibition is the first book to situate the Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 in a truly global context. Addressing national, imperial, and international themes, this collection of essays considers the significance of the Exhibition both for its British hosts and their relationships to the wider world, and for participants from around the globe. How ... Leer más

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Culture of Cities

    de Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Libro 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Leer más

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  • The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History

    de David Lowenthal ...
    Heritage has burgeoned over the past quarter of a century from a small élite preoccupation into a major popular crusade. Everything from Disneyland to the Holocaust Museum, from the Balkan wars to the Northern Irish troubles, from Elvis memorabilia to the Elgin Marbles bears the marks of the cult of heritage. In this acclaimed 1998 book David Lowenthal explains the rise of this obsession with the ... Leer más

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  • National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010

    Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change

    Edición de Peter Aronsson, Gabriella Elgenius ...
    Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess ... Leer más

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  • Bourgeois Utopias

    The Rise And Fall Of Suburbia

    de Robert Fishman ...
    A noted urban historian traces the story of the suburb from its origins in nineteenth-century London to its twentieth-century demise in decentralized cities like Los Angeles. ... Leer más

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  • The Birth of the Museum

    History, Theory, Politics

    de Tony Bennett ...
    Series series Culture: Policy and Politics
    In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors.Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • Keeping Their Marbles

    How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There

    de Tiffany Jenkins ...
    The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek ... Leer más

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  • The New Museology

    Edición de Peter Vergo ...
    Series series Critical Views
    Traditionally, museums have concerned themselves with foremost with conservation and classification. But what is conserved, and why? How is it classified? And who does this benefit? Are exhibitions really designed with the visitor in mind? And what qualities of experience are being offered? These are just some of the pressing questions which the authors - museum professionals, historians and ... Leer más

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  • The Seduction of Place

    The History and Future of Cities

    de Joseph Rykwert ...
    No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast immutable, impersonal forces, but because of human choices. The worsening or betterment of urban life will also be the result of choices. Our choices.That cities display and represent the personal ... Leer más

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  • The Making of Home

    The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes

    de Judith Flanders ...
    The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in her best and most ambitious work to date, "home" is a relatively new idea.In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Commemorating Canada

    History, Heritage, and Memory, 1850s-1990s

    de Cecilia Morgan ...
    Series series Themes in Canadian History
    Commemorating Canada is a concise narrative overview of the development of history and commemoration in Canada, designed for use in courses on public history, historical memory, heritage preservation, and related areas.Examining why, when, where, and for whom historical narratives have been important, Cecilia Morgan describes the growth of historical pageantry, popular history, textbooks, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD