The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of HistoryCambridge University Press, 13 Μαΐ 1998 - 338 σελίδες Heritage, while it often constitutes and defines the most positive aspects of culture, is a malleable body of historical text subject to interpretation and easily twisted into myth. When it is appealed to on a national or ethnic level in reactions against racial, religious, or economic oppression, the result is often highly-charged political contention or conflict. The extraordinary theme of this unique book is how the rise of a manifold, crusade-like obsession with tradition and inheritance--both physical and cultural--can lead to either good or evil. In a balanced account of the pros and cons of the rhetoric and spoils of heritage--on the one hand cultural identity and unity, on the other, potential holy war--David Lowenthal discusses the myriad uses and abuses of historical appropriation and offers a rare and accessible account of a concept at once familiar and fraught with complexity. David Lowenthal is Emeritus Professor of Geography at University College London, and the author of the bestselling The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge, 1985) |
Περιεχόμενα
HERITAGE ASCENDANT | 1 |
PERSONAL LEGACIES | 31 |
COLLECTIVE LEGACIES | 55 |
HERITAGE ASSAILED | 88 |
THE PURPOSE AND PRACTICE OF HISTORY | 105 |
THE PURPOSE OF HERITAGE | 127 |
THE PRACTICE OF HERITAGE | 148 |
BEING FIRST | 173 |
BEING INNATE | 192 |
RIVALRY AND RESTITUTION | 227 |
References | 251 |
293 | |
Acknowledgments | 315 |
319 | |
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19th-century Aboriginal African Amos Elon ancestral ancient antiquity authentic become Ben Zion Dinur bequests birth blood Britain British Britons Cambridge celebrate century Chapter claim collective Colonial Williamsburg common cult culture David Lowenthal Elgin Marbles elite England English Heritage Essays ethnic European faith father feel fiction forebears France French genes genetic German global Greek heirs historians Hunters and Collectors icons identity Indian indigenous inherited innate Irish Israeli itage James Jewish Jews John land landscape legacies less lineage living London Masada medieval memory Michael Michael Kammen mixed modern monuments museums mystique myth national heritage National Trust Native American Nazi offspring parents past patrimony patriotism Politics present pride quoted race racial Racial Hygiene Raphael Samuel relics roots sacred says Scientific Racism slaves social stewardship Stonehenge stress things tourism tradition tribal truth unique virtues visitors Yigael Yadin York
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