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Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based methods have come to influence conservation, takes stock of emerging approaches to values in heritage practice and policy, identifies common challenges and related spheres of knowledge, and proposes specific areas in which the development of new approaches and future research may help advance the field.
At first encounter, North Brother Island is among the most
unexpected of places: an uninhabited island of ruins in New York
City that hardly anyone knows, existing today almost in secret. But
in some fundamental sense it is also quite ordinary, for just as
they have in other parts of the city, people have lived, worked,
studied, healed, and died here for centuries. The island has been
bought and sold, used and re-used many times over. For a while,
though, it was famous: In 1885, it became the home of the Riverside
Hospital, which had been established to isolate and treat people
with infectious diseases. By 1895, the hospital had grown to such
an extent that the social reformer Jacob Riis wrote that there was
nothing like it in the world. Later, the island's reputation grew
mostly in infamy: In 1904, the passenger steamship General Slocum
caught fire in the East River, leaving more than a thousand souls
dead on the shores of North Brother Island, the single greatest
loss of life in New York City to that time; in 1908, the hospital
received as a patient Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary,
who would die on North Brother in 1938.
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