We a good story
Quick delivery in the UK

Books in the Heritage, Culture and Identity series

Filter
Filter
Sort bySort Series order
  • - The Politics of Second World War Commemoration in Singapore
    by Brenda S. A. Yeoh & Dr. Hamzah Muzaini
    £43.49 - 132.99

  • - Global and Local Relations
     
    £132.99

  • - Sanaa, Yemen
    by Dr. Michele Lamprakos
    £123.99

  • by Helen Walasek, Amra Hadzimuhamedovic, Tina Wik, et al.
    £41.99

  • by Dr. Ross J. Wilson
    £47.49 - 132.99

    This book examines the heritage of the Great War in contemporary Britain. It addresses how the war maintains a place and value within British society through the usage of phrases, references, metaphors and imagery within popular, media, heritage and political discourse. Whilst the representation of the war within historiography, literature, art.

  • by Christina Cameron & Mechtild Rössler
    £50.99

    This book examines the World Heritage system and its global impact through diverse prisms, including its normative frameworks, constituent bodies, programme activities, personalities and key issues. Concentrating on the period between 1972 and 2000.

  • - The English Lake District as Tourist Destination, 1750-2010
     
    £132.99

    Bringing together leading writers from a wide range of disciplines, this book explores the tourism history and heritage of the Lake District and its construction as a cultural landscape from the mid eighteenth century to the present day It critically analyses the relationships between history, heritage, landscape.

  • - Explorations of History-Making, Commemoration & Heritage in Modern Times
    by Dr Mark McCarthy
    £47.49 - 132.99

    Ireland's recent bailout by the EU and IMF has led to much lamenting over the loss of the sovereignty struggled for by earlier generations, in particular by the revolutionaries who rose against the unpopular political authorities in 1916. In light of the upcoming centenary in 2016, the time now seems ripe, therefore, to ask: why.

  • by John Western
    £50.99 - 132.99

    Based on interviews with 80 men and 80 women ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world, this title provides insights into issues of identity, race, nationality, culture, politics, heritage and representation, giving a valuable view of what it means (and has meant over the past century) to be a European.

  • by Argyro Loukaki
    £50.99 - 132.99

    Using illustrations of the Greek monuments and ruins, this book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic importance of Greek iconography for the Western world. It examines how Greek monuments are perceived as sublime national symbols and as a mythological and archetypal reference against which Western culture is measured.

  • - Locating Personal Pasts
    by Jeanne Kay Guelke
    £47.49 - 137.49

    Highlights the tools and information sources used by geographers and their applications to family history research. This book examines family history as a socio-cultural practice, including the activities of tourism, archival research, and DNA testing.

  • - Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity
     
    £123.99

    Seeks to illustrate the validity of multiple depictions of the Irish past, showing how scrutiny of heritage practices and meanings is so essential for illuminating our understanding of the present.

  • - New Perspectives on the Cultural Landscape
    by Dr Yvonne Whelan
    £50.99

    Explores the overlapping and often complex relationships between identity, memory, heritage and the cultural landscape. This book provides an overview of different approaches in the study of these relationships, combined with evidence from Ireland, England, Scotland and the United States.

  • - Visions of Space, Traditions of Place
    by Julia Brauch & Anna Lipphardt
    £50.99

    Time and place play the central role in our understanding of Jewish civilisation, while place and space seem to be secondary categories at best. This anthology focuses on the manifold approaches to the perception and experience of Jewish places and hence sheds light on the diverse processes of Jewish place-making.

  • - Historical Lessons for Modern Development Planning
    by Ambe J. Njoh
    £47.49 - 132.99

    The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate on why this should be the case, despite national and international efforts to reverse this situation. This book addresses issues which might provide some insights into the matter.

  • - Ruins and Imperial Legacies
    by Joao Sarmento
    £47.49 - 77.99

    Forts are marks and wounds of the history of human violence. This book examines how this global but chameleonic network of forts can offer insights into both the geopolitics of Empire and their postcolonial legacies, and into the intersection of colonialism, memory, power and space in the postcolonial Lusophone world and beyond.

  • - Perspectives on Visuality and the Past
    by Steve Watson
    £51.99

    The 'visual' has long played a crucial and formative role in structuring the experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. This edited collection explores the production, use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage within its broader social and political context.

  • - Counter-mapping Cultural Heritage
    by Professor Brian Graham
    £132.99

    Taking the significant Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Council of Europe 2005) as it's starting point, this book presents pragmatic views on the rise of the local and the everyday within cultural heritage discourse and it examines ways in which authorised or 'expert' views of heritage can be challenged.

  • - Urban Cultural Politics in the Americas
     
    £132.99

    Explores the importance of ethnicity and cultural economy in the post-Fordist city in the Americas. This title shows how ethnic communities are able to use ethnic labelling of cultural production, ethnic economy or ethno-tourism facilities in order to change living conditions and to empower its members in ways previously impossible.

  • - Cultural Perspectives on Sense of Place
    by Rosy Szymanski
    £50.99 - 132.99

    'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, commonly used in professional and domestic situations to describe the emotional attachment people have to the places they hold dear and into which they are rooted. This title reviews the meanings of 'sense of place', and where it is useful in the context of heritage management practice.

  • - Risk Society, Lived Cultural Heritage, Re-designing Reflexivity
    by Stephanie Koerner
    £47.49 - 132.99

    Deals with critical themes in the development of archaeology as a reflexive, self-critical discipline in the modern world. This book explores ethical, political and cultural tensions and responsibilities which need to be addressed by archaeologists when working within networks of global ecologies and communities.

  • - History, Memory and the Highland Clearances
    by Laurence Gourievidis
    £47.49 - 132.99

    Focusing on the interaction between history and memory and, in particular, on museums as a memory medium, this book deals with the memorialisation of the Highland Clearances over the twentieth century.

  • by John Pendlebury
    £47.49

    Starting from the premise that heritage values are culturally and historically constructed, this book examines the effects of pluralist frameworks of value on how preservation is conceived. It describes the practicalities of managing the uncertainty and fluidity of the widely varying conceptions of heritage.

  • - Diverging Identities in a Dynamic Region
    by Rahil Ismail
    £47.49 - 132.99

    Illustrated by a series of international case studies, this book demonstrates how the forces of 'postcolonialism' in their various manifestations are accelerating social change and creating new and 'imagined' communities, some of which are potentially disruptive and which may well threaten the longer term sustainability of Southeast Asia.

  • by Manuel Guardia
    £47.49 - 132.99

    Brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing. Featuring case studies which illustrate diverse perspectives on linking culture, urbanism and history, this book reviews heritage and planning culture, looking at the experience of urbanism in the 'Old Historic City'.

  • by G. J. Ashworth
    £47.49

    Bringing together case studies from Ireland, Holland, Canada, Germany and Mexico, this book examines the link between senses of place and senses of time. It suggests that not only do place identities change through time, but imagined pasts also provide resources which the present selects and packages for its own purposes.

  • - Material Ecologies of Citizenship
    by Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly
    £50.99 - 132.99

    Within contemporary theorizations, memory is not often explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations. Using both visual and material culture, this book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain.

Join thousands of book lovers

Sign up to our newsletter and receive discounts and inspiration for your next reading experience.