What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the
world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us:
millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer
for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When the Victorians
began to employ the term in something approaching the modern sense,
they applied it to cathedrals, castles, villages and certain
landscapes. Since then a multiplicity of heritage labels have
arisen, cultural and commercial, tangible and intangible – for
just as every era has its notion of heritage, so does every social
group, and every generation. In Heritage, James Stourton focuses on
elements of our cultural and natural environment that have been
deliberately preserved: the British countryside and national parks,
buildings such as Blenheim Palace and Tattershall Castle, and the
works of art inside them. He charts two heroic periods of
conservation – the 1880s and the 1960s – and considers whether
threats of wealth, rampant development and complacency are similar
in the present day. Heritage is both a story of crisis and profound
change in public perception, and one of hope and regeneration.
General
| Imprint: |
Apollo
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Authors: |
James Stourton
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
496 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-83893-317-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-83893-317-4 |
| Barcode: |
9781838933173 |
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