Destruction of cultural heritage in 19th-century France : old stones versus modern identities /
Destruction of Cultural Heritage in 19th Century France charts the destruction of earlier architecture as towns pull down their walls, build modern houses, welcome railways and, except for a few scholars, forget about the past. Heritage was largely scorned, and identity found in modernity, not in th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston :
Brill,
[2015]
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Colección: | Heritage and identity (Series) ;
v. 4. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Heritage and identity in 19th century France
- The early architecture of France
- The defence of France
- Technology and change : improved communications
- Vandalism, ignorance, scholarship, museums
- The organisation of scholarship and museums
- Modernity and its architectural consequences
- The Ile de France and Champagne
- Normandy, the North, Burgundy and points East
- Centre and West
- Centuries of destruction : Narbonne and Nimes
- Provence and the South : monumental losses
- Conclusion: Heritage? What heritage? : the transformation of townscape and landscape
- Appendix
- Bibliography: Sources
- Bibliography: Modern scholars.