From plunder to preservation : Britain and the heritage of empire, c.1800-1940 / edited by Astrid Swenson and Peter Mandler.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Swenson, Astrid, editor.
• Mandler, Peter, editor.
• UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

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

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