Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-Century France: Old Stones Versus Modern Identities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004289208)

Vendor: Michael Greenhalgh
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Format: Hardcover
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Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-Century France: Old Stones Versus Modern Identities

$250.00

Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th-Century France: Old Stones Versus Modern Identities

$250.00
Format: Hardcover
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Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th Century France examines the fate of the building stock and prominent ruins of France (especially Roman survivals) in the 19th century, supported by contemporary documentation and archives, largely provided through the publications of scholarly societies. The book describes the enormous extent of the destruction of monuments, providing an antidote to the triumphalism and concomitant amnesia which in modern scholarship routinely present the 19th century as one of concern for the past. It charts the modernising impulse over several centuries, detailing the archaeological discoveries made (and usually destroyed) as walls were pulled down and town interiors re-planned, plus the brutal impact on landscape and antiquities as railways were laid out. Heritage was largely scorned, and identity found in modernity, not the past.

Author: Michael Greenhalgh
ISBN-10: 9004289208
ISBN-13: 9789004289208
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 09/03/2015
Pages: 462
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.40w x 1.10d

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Choice 06/01/2016
By Michael Greenhalgh
By Michael Greenhalgh
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Michael Greenhalgh, PhD (1968), Emeritus Professor of Art History at the Australian National University, has published widely on the survival of the Roman world, most recently The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman landscape of North Africa (Leiden 2014).

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