Museology and heritage studies

Honorable Mention, 2021 Outstanding First Book Award from the Memory Studies Association Today, nearly any group or nation with violence in its past has constructed or is planning a memorial museum as a mechanism for confronting past trauma, often together with truth commissions, trials, and/or other symbolic or material reparations.

The first-ever history of Michigan's celebrated collection of papyri offers nonspecialists an inviting encounter with the ancient world

The first-ever history of Michigan's celebrated collection of papyri offers nonspecialists an inviting encounter with the ancient world

Today, tourism offers a privileged perspective to explore the relationships between sustainability, innovation, and inclusion.

Today, tourism offers a privileged perspective to explore the relationships between sustainability, innovation, and inclusion.

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual projections.

Moving images have become an increasingly common feature in a wide range of museums, which are frequently populated with screens and audio-visual projections.

Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today.

Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today.

Without women's curatorial work, the twentieth-century museum would never have developed as it did.

The notion of intangible heritage as a key urban element is underexplored, yet inherently intertwined with urban life that can influence and be influenced by urban policies and practices.

Without women's curatorial work, the twentieth-century museum would never have developed as it did.

Commemorative Theatricality: Embodied Dynamics of Memory and Memorial rethinks remembrance as an embodied, relational, and contested practice.

Commemorative Theatricality: Embodied Dynamics of Memory and Memorial rethinks remembrance as an embodied, relational, and contested practice.

Visualizing Latinx elevates the stories of contemporary Latinx creators working in fashion, independent filmmaking, and public art who confront the systemic erasure of Latinx creativity.

The notion of intangible heritage as a key urban element is underexplored, yet inherently intertwined with urban life that can influence and be influenced by urban policies and practices.

Interpreting the Indigenous South reframes public history as a space of Indigenous authority and self-representation, where communities define how their histories are told, their knowledge preserved, and their relationships to place understood.

Interpreting the Indigenous South reframes public history as a space of Indigenous authority and self-representation, where communities define how their histories are told, their knowledge preserved, and their relationships to place understood.

Detailing the development of the prison and its outlying stations, including its dreaded coal mines and providing an account of the changing views to convict rehabilitation, Convict-era Port Arthur focuses in on a number of individuals, telling the story through their eyes.

This book offers an insightful exploration of how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) contribute to understanding heritage change and revitalizing urban identities amid rapid urbanization.

This book offers an insightful exploration of how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) contribute to understanding heritage change and revitalizing urban identities amid rapid urbanization.

The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain.

The Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans was the first large open-air folk museum in Britain.

This book focuses on the relation of intangible heritage with technology, exploring the world of appropriate practices.

This book focuses on the relation of intangible heritage with technology, exploring the world of appropriate practices.

Branded Heritage and Real Estate presents a bold and timely investigation into the intersection of two powerful forces reshaping our cities today: the financialisation of space and the strategic use of heritage as a vehicle for profit.

Atlas of Remote Sensing for World Heritage: China describes the UNESCO Natural and Cultural Heritage Sites in China and focuses on the interrelationship between culture and nature as well as on the breadth and complexity of China's world heritage sites.

Branded Heritage and Real Estate presents a bold and timely investigation into the intersection of two powerful forces reshaping our cities today: the financialisation of space and the strategic use of heritage as a vehicle for profit.

This pioneering book establishes the theoretical framework of Terrapoetic Urbanism, integrating human geography, urban planning, and landscape architecture to decode the co-evolutionary mechanisms of traditional Chinese "e;mountain-water-city"e; systems.

Al-Ahkam al-Sultaniyyah (The Sultanic Rulings) by Judge Abu Ya'la al-Farra' is one of the most prominent books on the system of government in Islam.

Intelligence is a great gift that distinguishes a person and is the key to success and excellence in all areas of life.

This book explores the role of museums in Shanghai as cultural instruments for shaping urban identity, emotional attachment, and spatial rootedness.

This book explores the role of museums in Shanghai as cultural instruments for shaping urban identity, emotional attachment, and spatial rootedness.

This edited volume examines the unforeseen effects of the notion of intangible heritage on conservation practices not only for urban contexts, but more generally for cultural practices.

This edited volume examines the unforeseen effects of the notion of intangible heritage on conservation practices not only for urban contexts, but more generally for cultural practices.

The spirit of old gatherings returns within the pages of this book, where the sheikh would sit with dignity and reverence, surrounded by students in neat rows, pens ready and hearts attentive.

This book examines photographic collections as ways of doing and/or inspiring research in the humanities and social sciences.

¿Cómo fue posible la exportación de un monumento nacional como el ábside de la iglesia románica de San Martín en Fuentidueña y que llegara una de las salas del museo The Cloisters?

This pioneering book establishes the theoretical framework of Terrapoetic Urbanism, integrating human geography, urban planning, and landscape architecture to decode the co-evolutionary mechanisms of traditional Chinese "e;mountain-water-city"e; systems.

These selections offer a valuable historical window into a pivotal period in Islamic Egypt's history, specifically the era of the Mamluk sultans.

In the fragrant scent of the moist branch of Andalusia, the voice of Al-Maqqari Al-Tilimsani appears as the last remaining echo of Andalusia, a witness who does not merely recount events, but rather preserves them from being lost.

The author of this book is the famous historian Taqi al-Din Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Abd al-Qadir ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim al-Maqrizi, one of the most prominent historians of Islamic Egypt.

This book examines photographic collections as ways of doing and/or inspiring research in the humanities and social sciences.

Monuments, Statues, and Commemorations of Women examines the heritage messages presented by statuary monuments, focusing on statues and monuments of women and exploring the challenges involved in depicting the key role played by women across different societies.

In these pages, we encounter the masterpieces of Al-Jahiz's letters, Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Basri, who combined the balanced Mu'tazilite thought with a sharp, witty satire, crafting texts that carry the essence of the Abbasid era and its vibrant details.

Monuments, Statues, and Commemorations of Women examines the heritage messages presented by statuary monuments, focusing on statues and monuments of women and exploring the challenges involved in depicting the key role played by women across different societies.

This book helps museums, exhibit designers, and exhibit fabricators move forward in their mission to be more sustainable.

This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections.

Examining the history of Soviet museums in the 1920s and 1930s, this book engages with the core problem of interwar museology: adequately representing the historical development of art to create a plausible and coherent version of its evolution.

This volume explores contemporary artistic practices developed in material culture museums to reimagine historic collections.