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National museums and nation-building in Europe, 1750-2010 : mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change / edited by Peter Aronsson and Gabriella Elgenius.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Political culture.
- Museums--Social aspects.
- Museums--Political aspects.
- Museums.
- National museums.
- Cultural policy.
- Europe--Politics and government.
- Europe.
- Politics and government.
- Europe--Cultural policy.
- National museums--Europe--History.
- Museums--Political aspects--Europe--History.
- Museums--Social aspects--Europe--History.
- Nationalism--Europe--History.
- Nationalism.
- Political culture--Europe--History.
- Popular culture--Europe--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) : illustration, map
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Europe's national museums have been at the centre of on-going nation making processes since their creation. These museums have successfully negotiated conflicts and contradictions to obtain the support of citizens and taxpayers domestic and foreign visitors, scientists, art connoisseurs, and policy makers. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess the national museum as a manifestation of cultural and political desires, rather than that a straightforward representation of the historical facts of a nation. Examining the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, this book proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts. Revealing how different types of nations and states - former empires, monarchies, republics, pre-modern, modern or post-imperial entities - deploy and prioritise different types of museums in their making, it constitutes the first comprehensive and comparative perspective on national museums in Europe and their intricate relationship to the making of nations and states. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Making museums and nations / by Peter Aronsson and Gabriella Elgenius
- Part 1. Establishing national museums, 1750-2012
- National museums in between regionalism, nationalism and imperialism, 1750-1914 / by Stefan Berger
- Museums of civilizations, states and identities : national museums in Europe, 1914-2000 / by PeÌter Apor
- Museums, nations, empires, religions / by Tony Bennett
- Part 2. Museum typologies : art and cultural history museums
- The changing roles of art museums / by Dominique Poulot
- History museums and the making of citizens and communities / by Ilaria Porciani
- Part 3. Conclusions and national museum analysis
- National museums as national symbols : a survey of strategic nation-building and identity-politics / by Gabriella Elgenius
- National museums as cultural constitutions / by Peter Aronsson.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781315737133
- 1315737132
- Publisher Number:
- 99984185114
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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