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Dethroning historical reputations : universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors /
The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain the attempt to remove a statue of one of Oxford's most famous benefactors, the imperialist Cecil Rhodes, has spread to other univer...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Institute of Historical Research,
2018.
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| Colección: | IHR shorts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / David Cannadine – Commentary on universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors / Jill Pellew – The English civic universities : endowments and the commemoration of benefactors / H.S. Jones – Donors to an imperial project : Randlords as benefactors to the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College of Science and Technology / Jill Pellew – The expectations of benefactors and a responsibility to endow / John Shakeshaft – The funder’s perspective / Victoria Harrison – Calibrating relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum / Laura N.K. Van Broekhoven – From objects of enlightenment to objects of apology : why you can’t make amends for the past by plundering the present / Tiffany Jenkins – British universities and Caribbean slavery / Nicholas Draper – Risk and reputation : the London blue plaques scheme / Anna Eavis and Howard Spencer – ‘A dreary record of wickedness’ : moral judgement in history / Brian Young – We have been here before : ‘Rhodes must fall’ in historical context / Lawrence Goldman.