Full Contributors:
Richard D. Altick, Arjun Appadurai, Tony Bennett, Carol A. Breckenridge, James Clifford, Philip Dodd, Carol Duncan, David Goodman, Stuart Hall, Robert Hewison, Eric Hobsbawn, Kenneth Hudson, Sharon Macdonald, Colin Mercer, Kevin Robins, Chris Rojek, Robert W. Rydell, Raphael Samuel, Roger Silverstone, Anthony D. Smith, John Urry, Patrick Wright

In a period of globalisation there has been a startling resurgence of nationalism, regionalism, and other assertions of local identity, reflected in the boom in the heritage industry in all its forms, from education in oral and social history to entertainment and tourism. Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies to ask what role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation. With an international perspective focusing on the US, France, Australia, the UK and India, the contributors investigate whether cultural artefacts can represent all of us equally, as members of a given nation.
The opening section explores the strategies involved in creating and sustaining a national culture, such as the standardisation of language and the sidelining of regional cultures. In the second section, contributors examine the way the past is preserved, represented and consumed as our 'heritage'. Tracing the growth of 'heritage culture' from the founding of the National Trust in 1895, to the National heritage acts of the 1980's, key figures in the heritage debate ask why it has become important for nations to preserve the past, and in whose name it is preserved and displayed?
The third section looks at the historical development of the public museum, examining the development of conventions of classification and display, and stressing the link between the emergence of museums and the development of the modern nation state. In the final section contributors focus on issues facing museums today; the difficulties they now encounter when facing the competing demands and interests of public funding bodies, tourist, and local or ethnically specific communitities, and argue that museums cannot continue to operate as if they are the repositories of objective and universal knowledge.

David Boswell, now 91, started his education at Bertrand Russell's experimental school at Telegraph House. He progressed to Bedales and took a degree in engineering at London University where, after serving in the RAF during WW2, he met his wife Meg - married now for 65 years with 2 sons and 5 grandchildren. During a long career in microelectronics, he wrote several books on management and technology. As an asthma sufferer since age 15, he brought considerable medical knowledge and experience to helping fellow copd patients via a global cyber-Samaritan type website. During a long retirement in a lovely Dorset valley he returned to an earlier love of writing poetry and single page short stories. Still writing, he is a contributor to UKAuthors as 'Bozzz', some of the poems now appear in this collection - they are witty, shrewd comments on life around him.

Title: Ventilation in American dwellings: with a series of diagrams, presenting examples in different classes of habitations.Author: D B ReidPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington LibraryDocumentID: SABCP02764400CollectionID: CTRG98-B2774PublicationDate: 18580101SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to AmericaNotes: Collation: 12, iii]-xxxvii, 124 p., 30 leaves of plates: ill.; 24 cm

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.