Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historic Identity

Author: Diane Barthel
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: historic, identity, memory, collective, preservation
Number of Pages: 198
Published: 1996-09-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0813522935
ISBN-13: 9780813522937

Book Description:

This text focuses on historic preservation, and contrasts Europe - which it argues is an elitist enterprise aimed at preserving values - and the USA, where the patterns are more democratic and dynamic. It asks whether preservation is just a media representation and a means of consuming history.


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