From plunder to preservation : Britain and the heritage of empire, c.1800-1940 / edited by Astrid Swenson and Peter Mandler.
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy ; 187.Publication details: Oxford Oxford University Press 2013 Description: xii, 304 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cmISBN: 9780197265413 (hbk.); 0197265413 (hbk.)Other title: Britain and the heritage of empire, c.1800-1940Subject(s): Cultural property -- Protection -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses | Archaeology -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses | Historic preservation -- Great Britain -- History -- Congresses | Pillage -- Congresses | Imperialism -- Congresses | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses | Antiquities -- Collection and preservation -- Corrupt practices -- Congresses | Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- Congresses | Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century -- Congresses | Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century -- CongressesDDC classification: 909.0971241 LOC classification: CC135. | F76 2013Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations |
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Papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, England, in March, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I: Introduction. The heritage of empire / Astrid Swenson -- Part II: The classical world. Of doubtful antiquity : fighting for the past in the Crimean War / Edmund Richardson -- Officers and gentlemen? : Roman Britain and the British Empire / Mary Beard -- Unity out of diversity? : the making of a modern Christian monument in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / Robin Cormack -- Part III: The biblical world. Unholy water : archaeology, the Bible, and the first Aswan Dam / David Gange -- The Cotswolds in Jerusalem : restoration and empire / Simon Goldhill -- Part IV: Empires and civilizations. Appropriation to supremacy : ideas of the 'native' in the rise of British Imperial Heritage / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Monument preservation and the vexing question of religious structures in Colonial India / Indra Sengupta -- Representing Ancient Egypt at imperial high noon (1882-1922) : Egyptological careers and artistic allegories of civilization / Donald Malcolm Reid -- Part V: The New World. Publication as preservation at a remote Maya site in the early twentieth century / Donna Yates -- Plunder or preservation? : negotiating an Anglo-American heritage in the later nineteenth century in the Old World and the New : Shakespeare's birthplace, Niagara Falls, and Carlyle's house / Melanie Hall -- Dying Americans : race, extinction, and conservation in the New World / Sadiah Qureshi.