Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc

'Risk Assessment for Object Conservation' reflects Dr Jonathan Ashley-Smith's personal interests and views in areas including materials science, the ethics of restoration, the costs of conservation and the philosophy of museums.

Illustrated with contemporary case studies, Curating Design provides a history of and introduction to design curatorial practice both within and outside the museum.

Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites demonstrates that museums and historic spaces are increasingly becoming "e;backdrops"e; for all sorts of appropriations and interventions that throw new light upon the objects they comprise and the pasts they reference.

Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "e;collection"e; as an entity and as an act.

The Historian's Toolbox introduces students to the theory, craft, and methods of history and equips them with a series of tools to research and understand the past.

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "e;ghost tours,"e; frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South.

Anders reisen und dabei das Besondere entdecken: Mit den aktuellen Tipps aus den Michael-Müller-Reiseführern gestalten Sie Ihre Reise individuell, nachhaltig und sicher.

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published.

Arts and Cultural Management: Sense and Sensibilities in the State of the Field opens a conversation that is much needed for anyone identifying arts management or cultural management as primary areas of research, teaching, or practice.

Keen to explore a different side of Dublin?

Wild animals have been housed in zoos and aquariums for 5,000 years, fascinating people living in virtually every society.

Robert Hayward offers a careful analysis of surviving accounts of the Temple and its service.

The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought.

The protection and security of cultural properties is of primary concern to the thousands of federal, state, county, city, and private institutions entrusted with housing and displaying our national heritage and history of our society.

'Global' knowledge was constructed, communicated and contested during the long nineteenth century in numerous ways and places.

Curation as a concept and a catchword in modern parlance has, over recent decades, become deeply ingrained in modern culture.

This book is focused on the transcultural memory of the Mediterranean region and the different ways it is articulated by contemporary art practices and museum projects linked to migrations, exile, diaspora and transnationality.

Wonder has an established link to the history and philosophy of science.

Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change explores the way museums tackle the broad global issue of climate change.

This anthology explores the spatial dimension and politics of haunting.

Cultural Heritage Management in Africa explores the diversity of Africa's cultural heritage by analysing how and why this heritage has been managed, and by considering the factors that continue to influence management strategies and systems throughout the African continent.

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A photographic guide laced with insider knowledge to one of Northern New Mexico's most spectacular scenic byways.

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Rethinking Research in the Art Museum presents an original and radical perspective on how research can function as an agent of change in art museums today.

First published in 1996.

Culture and Perspective deals with a variety of key aspects concerning heritage management at times of crisis and specifically with the public character of cultural heritage.

Get Your Balls, Bats, and Sticks on Route 66!

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and economic and social development.

Throwing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and the innovative dramatic practices under the early Stuarts.

Blockbuster exhibitions are ubiquitous fixtures in the cultural calendars of major museums and galleries worldwide.

This is a book for people who are interested in statues .

World Heritage: Concepts, Management and Conservation presents an insight into discussions and debates surrounding the UNESCO World Heritage List, and the properties on it.

How can the cut of a 19th century gown control its shape?

Sharing Authority in the Museum provides a detailed and fully contextualised study of a heritage assemblage over time, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day.

First Published in 1999.

First Published in 1999.

This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights.

An exploration of how Senegal has decolonised its cultural heritage sites since independence, many of which are remnants of the French empire.

Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in post-conflict societies.

In a major original study, Graham Maddox analyses the role of religion in the development of democracy from the tribes of ancient Israel to the present day.

This comprehensive book brings to light the portraits, private collections and public patronage of the princesse de Lamballe, a pivotal member of Marie-Antoinette's inner circle.

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction presents a comprehensive view on the destruction of cultural heritage and offers insights into this multifaceted, interdisciplinary phenomenon; the methods scholars have used to study it; and the results these various methods have produced.

Iconoclasm and the Museum addresses the museum's historic tendency to be silent about destruction through an exploration of institutional attitudes to iconoclasm, or image breaking, and the concept's place in public display.

With the vast majority of academic theory on tourism based onWestern tourists, Asia on Tour illustrates why the rapid growth of travel for leisure and recreation in Asia demands a reappraisal of how tourism is analyzed and understood.

Winner of the American Book AwardSan Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kindan "e;insider's guide"e; to one of America's most celebrated ethnic enclaves by an author born and raised there.