Title & Author:

Towards world heritage : international origins of the preservation movement, 1870-1930 / edited by Melanie Hall.

Publication:

Farnham, Surrey : Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.

Description:

xx, 281 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. + 2 sheets (11 x 9 cm; 11 x 11 cm.).

Series:

Heritage, culture and identity

Notes:
Errata sheets loosely inserted.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-266) and index.
Introduction : towards world heritage / Melanie Hall -- 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 / Ane M. Blackburn -- Conflict and neglect : between ruin and preservation at the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem / Raymond Cohen -- 'Shrine at Sulgrave' : the preservation of the Washington ancestral home as an 'English Mount Vernon' and transatlantic relations / T.G. Otte -- 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 nineteenth and twentieth 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' : an anti-history of the preservation movement in Britain / Peter Mandle.

ISBN:

9781409407720 (hardback : alk. paper)
1409407721 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781409407737 (ebook)
140940773X (ebook)

Subject:

World Heritage areas History.
Cultural property Protection History.
Historic preservation History.
Sites du patrimoine mondial Histoire.
Préservation historique Histoire.
Cultural property Protection.
Historic preservation.
World Heritage areas.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Hall, Melanie.
Heritage, culture, and identity.

International origins of the preservation movement, 1870-1930

Holdings:

Location: Library main 276875
Call No.: BIB 211381
Status: Available