Astrid Swenson, Peter Mandler

Gebundenes Buch

From Plunder to Preservation

Britain and the Heritage of Empire, C.1800-1940

Herausgeber: Swenson, Astrid; Mandler, Peter

Beschreibung

This book looks at the effect of the British Empire on the cultures and civilisations of the peoples it ruled by considering the impact of empire on the idea of 'heritage'. Case studies and illustrations show how our understanding of the diverse heritages of world history was forged in the crucible of the British Empire.

Autor

Astrid Swenson is a Lecturer in European History at Brunel University London. She received her Ph.D from St. John's College Cambridge and was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group and a Fellow of Darwin College. Her book The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the past in France, Germany and Britain, 1789-1914 is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. Peter Mandler is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Bailey College Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College. His book Return from the natives: How Margaret Mead won the Second World War and lost the Cold War is forthcoming with Yale University Press. From November 2012 he will be President of the Royal Historical Society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 739g
• ISBN-13: 9780197265413
• ISBN-10: 0197265413
• Artikelnr.: 37648965