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The Monumental Challenge of Preservation : The Past in a Volatile World /
The enormous task of preserving the world's heritage in the face of war, natural disaster, vandalism, neglect, and technical obsolescence. The monuments--movable, immovable, tangible, and intangible--of the world's shared cultural heritage are at risk. War, terrorism, natural disaster, van...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : we are what we preserve--and don't preserve
- A tale of monuments in two cities
- To destroy culture : Raphael Lemkin's lessons about genocide and how they relate to the preservation of cultural heritage
- Documenting cultural heritage in Syria
- Collecting as preservation
- Worth dying for? : Richard Nickel and historic preservation in Chicago
- What are we really trying to preserve : the original or the copy?
- It takes a (virtual) village : some thoughts on digital preservation
- Sustainable preservation
- Preservation : enduring or ephemeral
- Epilogue : Berlin as a city of reconciliation and preservation.