Author: Elizabeth D. Mulloy
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ISBN: 9780891330332
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 301

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Author: David Edward Finley
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ISBN: 9780598240668
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 123

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Author: Elizabeth D. Mulloy
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: Miles Glendinning
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136167013
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians. In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable? Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a ‘Conservation Movement’, infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. The close inter-relationship between conservation and modern civilisation was most dramatically heightened in periods of war or social upheaval, beginning with the French Revolution, and rising to a tragic climax in the 20th-century age of totalitarian extremism; more recently the troubled relationship of ‘heritage’ and global commercialism has become dominant. Miles Glendinning’s new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, the entire history of this architectural Conservation Movement, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely.

Author: Patricia West
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
ISBN: 1588344258
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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Celebrating the lives of famous men and women, historic house museums showcase restored rooms and period furnishings, and portray in detail their former occupants' daily lives. But behind the gilded molding and curtain brocade lie the largely unknown, politically charged stories of how the homes were first established as museums. Focusing on George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums.

Author: United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Environmental Policy
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 646

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Author: Alexis Weedon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351888161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 583

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This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular significance in the history of twentieth-century publishing. It reprints some of the best comparative perspectives and most insightful and innovatively presented scholarship on publishing and book history from such figures as Philip Altbach, Lewis Coser, James Curran, Elizabeth Long, Laura Miller, Angus Phillips, Janice Radway, Jonathan Rose, Shafquat Towheed, Catherine Turner, Jay Satterfield, Clare Squires, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. It is arranged into six sections which examine the internationalisation of publishing businesses, changing notions of authorship, innovation in the design and marketing of books, the specific effects of globalisation on creative property and the book in a multimedia marketplace. Twentieth-century book history attracts an audience beyond the traditional disciplines of librarianship, bibliography, history and literary studies. It will appeal to publishing educators, editors, publishers, booksellers, as well as academics with an interest in media and popular culture.

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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: Robert E. Stipe
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807827797
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 594

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Surveying the past, present and future of historic preservation in America, this text features 15 essays by some of the most eminent voices in the field, essays which highlight the principle ideas and events that have shaped and continue to shape the movement.