Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc

First published in 1997.

This volume combines some of the most influential published research in this emerging field with newly commissioned essays on the issues, problems and lessons involved in collaborating museums and source communities.

From the desert vistas of Georgia O'Keeffe's New Mexico ranch to Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's Hamptons cottage, step into the homes and studios of illustrious American artists and witness creativity in the making.

This book is available either individually, or as part of the specially-priced Arguments of the Philosphers Collection.

To this day The White Hart and The Red Lion are two of the most popular names for a public house in England both talismans that served as the insignia for Richard II and the banished Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, who usurped the throne in 1399.

First Published in 1999.

For generations, enterprising people in the southern Appalachians have turned the region's extensive network of caves into a strange, fascinating genre of tourist attraction.

Handbook for Museums is the definitive guide of need-to-know information essential for working in the museum world.

This book presents over 20 authors' reflections on 'curating care' - and presents a call to give curatorial attention to the primacy of care for all life and for more 'caring curating' that responds to the social, ecological and political analysis of curatorial caregiving.

Nobody knows the city of light like Paris resident and travel writer John Baxter and nobody is able to write about its culture quite so intriguingly.

Mit diesem aktuellen Reiseführer Australiens Osten und Zentrum erleben!

This edited book provides a broad collection of current critical reflections on heritage-making processes involving landscapes, positioning itself at the intersection of landscape and heritage studies.

"e;This special issue of Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology is dedicated to the study of corrosion of objects from historical sites.

This book presents the first detailed study of the place of contemporary art galleries and gallerists, especially within the art markets of Europe and the United States.

Not satisfied with the assertion that museums have taken great strides in becoming representative, relevant and open in their preoccupations, A Museum in Public contends that the supposedly public nature of their institutional role continues to be a rhetorical one.

Route 66 Adventure Handbook is your personal guide to the vanishing American roadside, with all of its exuberance, splendor, and absurdity.

The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them.

This book identifies the-now moribund-Modernist spirit of the twentieth century, with its "e;make it new"e; attitude in the arts, and its tendency towards abstraction and the scientific process, as the impetus behind the academic structures of universities and museums, together with the development of discrete scholarly disciplines such as literary theory, sociology, and art history based on quasi-scientific principles.

"e;This special issue of Corrosion Engineering Science and Technology is dedicated to the study of corrosion of objects from historical sites.

Japan's heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally.

The resonant ruins of Pompeii are perhaps the most direct route back to the living, breathing world of the ancient Romans.

This companion investigates the philosophical and theoretical foundations determining the conditions of possibility and the limits that make the conservation, readaptation, and transformation of past buildings legitimate operations.

Hailed as "e;extraordinarily learned"e; (New York Times), "e;blithe in spirit and unerring in vision,"e; (New York Magazine), and the "e;definitive record of New York's architectural heritage"e; (Municipal Art Society), Norval White and Elliot Willensky's book is an essential reference for everyone with an interest in architecture and those who simply want to know more about New York City.

What is contemporary art, and how did art come to be what it is today?

Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums.

Cut it, stick it, twist it!

Minnesotans can boast of a treasure trove of historic buildings, landmarks, and sites in our state.

This book interrogates the relationship of theatre and the dialectics of centre and the margins.

Museums as Agents for Social Change is the first comprehensive text to examine museum practice in a decolonised moment, moving beyond known roles of object collection and presentation.

Urban heritage, which is part of the conceptual expansion of cultural heritage, has become an extraordinarily complex notion.

The Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry.

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

The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events from Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington Gardens, the range is glorious.

Through the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in which architecture as a discipline, a practice and a discourse represents the Holocaust.

This book provides a fresh perspective on the lives of Henry VIII's six wives by embarking on a journey through the manors, castles and palaces in which their lives were played out.

Focusing on three secular institutional building types: libraries, museums, and cinemas, this book explores the intricate interplay between culture and architecture.

Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums.

Japan's heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally.

Over the past 20 years we have seen critical design studies emerge as a springboard for scholars, activists, and those working in the creative industries.

The Industrial Heritage is the first integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management of the complex heritage of industrial cultures.

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

Focusing on how museums prioritize and produce content, Hip Heritage demonstrates how economic issues play an ever-larger role in determining how cultural heritage is being framed and presented in contemporary heritage museums.

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

London Bridge lined with houses from end to end was one of the most extraordinary structures ever seen in London.

The concept of preventive conservation has successfully introduced the knowledge that "e;prevention is better than cure"e; into the built heritage sector.

From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture.

Marketing the Museum is the ideal guide to the ways in which museums can overcome the numerous hurdles on the route to truly achieving a marketing orientation.

Author Chris Epting established a new genre in book publishing when a trio of titles in the early 2000sJames Dean Died Here: The Locations of Americas Pop Culture Landmarks,Elvis Presley Passed Here,andMarilyn Monroe Dyed Herewere released to critical acclaim and introduced readers to a groundbreaking travel concept: The pop culture road trip.

Take a look at the drinking dive under a teashop where the original Rolling Stones were recruited, visit the places where skiffle was born, The Beatles played their last gig, and Paula Yates died.

Remarkable Golf Courses encompasses the extremes of the sport - from the highest golf course in La Paz, Bolivia, to the lowest, in Death Valley, USA; from the most northerly in the Arctic Circle to the most southerly in Tierra del Fuego.