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From plunder to preservation : Britain and the heritage of empire, c.1800-1940 / edited by Astrid Swenson and Peter Mandler.
University Press Scholarship Online Complete Available online
University Press Scholarship Online Complete- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Proceedings of the British Academy ; 187.
- Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 187
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cultural property--Protection--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.
- Civilization.
- Antiquities--Collection and preservation.
- Corruption.
- Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Pillage.
- Historic preservation.
- History.
- Archaeology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Archaeology.
- Colonies.
- Cultural property--Protection--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Cultural property--Protection.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--Congresses.
- Archaeology--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.
- Historic preservation--Great Britain--History--Congresses.
- Pillage--Congresses.
- Imperialism--Congresses.
- Imperialism.
- Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.
- Antiquities--Collection and preservation--Corrupt practices--Congresses.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century--Congresses.
- Great Britain--Civilization--20th century--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 304 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans.
- Other Title:
- Britain and the heritage of empire, c.1800-1940
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, England, in March, 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780191760464
- 0191760463
- Publisher Number:
- 99984322037
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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