Representing the Nation A Reader - Histories, Heritage, Museums

Name: Representing the Nation A Reader - Histories, Heritage, Museums
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ISBN: 9780415208703

ISBN-10: 041520870X

ISBN-13: 9780415208703

Edition: 1999

Authors: Jessica Evans, David Boswell

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Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading cultural thinkers to ask what role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.

Book details

List price: $50.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/21/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.398
Language: English



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Nation and Representation




Culture, community and nation


Introduction to Part One




Tradition and Translation: National Culture in its Global Context




Culture, Community, Nation




History and Modernity: Reflections on the Theory of Nationalism




Mass-Producing Traditions: Europe, 1870-1914




Englishness and the National Culture




Representing the past as heritage and its consumption


Introduction to Part Two




Trafficking in History




The Climate of Decline




Resurrectionism




Fatal Attractions




Gazing on History




Museums as classificatory systems and their prehistories


Introduction to Part Three




National Monuments




Fear of Circuses: Founding the National Museum of Victoria




The Chicago World's Columbian Exposition of 1893: "And Was Jerusalem Builded Here?"




From the Princely Gallery to the Public Art Museum: The Louvre Museum and the National Gallery, London




The Exhibitionary Complex




Museums and cultural management


Introduction to Part Four




Attempts to Define 'Museum'




Useful Culture




Cultural Policy: Research and the Government Imperative




Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India




Rewriting The Museums' Fictions: Taxonomies, Stories and Readers




Museums as Contact Zones



Index