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Book SynopsisThe history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on a range of archival sources and interviews, this book charts the development of new narratives of the recent German past and explores the significance of the commemoration of the Berlin Wall in defining German national identity.Trade Review'An original mixture of journalistic reporting and scholarly analysis, this will be the definitive work on the subject of the aftermath of the Wall.' Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and author of Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century'Hope M. Harrison's superbly informed and often moving study of the Berlin Wall demonstrates that the issues of whom to honor and punish, how to memorialize, and how to integrate into the history of German dictatorship, have made its history a continuing site of political contestation. And poignantly today, a reminder of the era when we strove to tear down walls and not to build them.' Charles S. Maier, Harvard University and author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany'Hope M. Harrison provides an extraordinary account of an extraordinary event and its legacies, both factual and political, and it will certainly frame the discussion for the future. It is a tremendous achievement.' Jeffrey K. Olick, William R. Kenan Professor of Sociology and History, University of Virginia'A riveting and compelling account of Germany's post-1989 struggle over the history and memory of the Berlin Wall. Masterfully told with critical distance and yet deep empathy, Harrison engages the reader in the dramatic contest over the past and future of the new Germany.' Christian F. Ostermann, Director of the History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 'A tour de force, breaking new ground in showing us how German memory activists turned the focus of national history to the Cold War, and in particular to the wall, the dismantling of which embodied the peaceful end of that struggle for freedom.' Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut'… many years in the making and is the result of meticulous research.' Georgina Paul, The Times Literary Supplement'… carefully researched and superbly readable …' Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs'This important book offers a comprehensive account of how the Berlin Wall has been remembered and memorialized since its fall in 1989 … this clearly written and highly readable text will appeal to scholars and general readers alike.' H. D. Baer, Choice'… far-ranging, well-researched and highly readable study … After the Berlin Wall is a major achievement by a leading scholar, a study that will, for the foreseeable future, set the standard for any serious exploration of unified Germany's memory culture surrounding the Berlin Wall.' Pertti Ahonen, H-Diplo'… the book adds to our understanding of the Wall as a touchstone and sounding board for memory. Harrison succeeds in bringing out the palimpsest qualities of this stark, spray-painted structure.' Mark Fenemore, H-Diplo'Comprehensively researched, beautifully written …' Mary Fulbrook, H-Diplo'Hope M. Harrison's splendid book is a tremendous achievement … It will frame the memory and identity discussions for the future.' Stephan Kieninger, H-Diplo'… the book [is] so beneficial for everybody who studies the history of the Berlin Wall.' Hanno Hochmuth, The Public HistorianTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and German terms; Introduction: the Berlin Wall and German historical memory; 1. Divergent approaches to the fall of the Wall; 2. The fight over memory at Bernauer Strasse; 3. Creating a Berlin Wall Memorial ensemble at Bernauer Strasse; 4. Remembering the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie; 5. The Berlin Senate's master plan for remembering the Wall; 6. The Federal Government and the Berlin Wall; 7. Victims and perpetrators; 8. Conflicting narratives about the Wall; 9. Heroes to celebrate and a new founding myth; Conclusion: memory as warning; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years controversial cases such as the so-called Elgin Marbles have prompted public debate on the return of cultural treasures to their homelands. In this fully revised and expanded third edition of her seminal work, first published in 2007, Jeanette Greenfield analyzes and discusses the historical, legal and political issues surrounding a wide cross-section of similar cases. Bringing the story up to date, this edition includes new chapters on wartime plunders, deliberately destroyed art and the return of ethnic art such as Australian aboriginal and Native American art. It also explores the palaeontological and marine archaeology issues at play and examines new approaches taken by museums when dealing with cultural objects and their return. Written in a highly accessible style with an interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in cultural heritage, archaeology and anthropology, museums, art history and international law.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '[Described the central topic of this book as] 'the morally rather beautiful idea that certain objects belong by right to a culture, and that in certain circumstances this overrides rights of circumstantial ownership.' Arthur C. Danto, The Times Literary SupplementReview of the hardback: 'She brings style, enthusiasm and the mind an international lawyer to the complex historical, legal and political issues … A book for everyone concerned about Earth's scientific, historic and artistic heritage …' The TimesReview of the hardback: 'This remarkable book represents on the one hand, an important contribution to the law, both international and domestic, of the cultural heritage, and on the other hand a contribution likewise to the history of the movement of cultural treasures.' Australian Law JournalReview of the hardback: 'Both readable and with its hundred excellent illustrations a delight to browse through …' British Yearbook of International LawReview of the hardback: '[Jeanette Greenfield] presents an involving, balanced and excellently researched discussion of the priceless cultural artefacts taken from their lands of origin …' Art and AntiquesReview of the hardback: 'A fine book on a very important subject often surrounded not just by controversy but plain lies. It is a book which all interested in the cultural heritage of the people of the world will find rewarding reading.' Sydney Morning HeraldReview of the hardback: 'An extremely readable and accessible account of the complex legal issues involved in the question of repatriation … a well thought out balanced presentation …' Current AnthropologyReview of the hardback: '… a very valuable and important work … presents fully researched discussions of scores of cases argued over many years concerning national requests for 'repatriation' and 'return' of art and artefacts.' American Journal of ArchaeologyReview of the hardback: 'The first edition of this highly readable study was an important landmark in the debates about the antiquities trade.' British ArchaeologyReview of the hardback: '… provides a very fair analysis of this complex issue … a beautifully produced book … a standard reference on the subject.' Australian SocietyReview of the hardback: 'Greenfield's book is an excellent guide for any would-be cultural politician.' Financial TimesReview of the hardback: '… a breakthrough book … which treats in a very detailed and illuminating and nuanced way, processes about which folklorists increasingly are … concerned: the expropriation of cultural capital and its use by powerful nation-states for the purposes of political legitimization, and then its repatriation, as a result of growing pressure from those from whom it was taken.' Lingua Franca'… essential for reflection and reference for anyone wishing to engage in the increasingly public debate about the ownership of cultural property. … There are substantial, enlightening studies of many specific cases, and very readable discussions of the complex moral, political and legal contexts. New additions include chapters on plunder, native rights to relics and human remains, and the deliberate deconstruction of art. It all benefits greatly from being a clear minded, single-authorised study rather than an edited collection' British Archaeology'The Return of Cultural Treasures is an enjoyable read. Greenfield is strong on facts and knows how to tell an attractive story. The volume is lively and rich in juicy morsels. It is also attractively presented, with 139 illustrations, most of them photos.' Journal of Business Law'Dr Greenfield has certainly produced a masterpiece which we can recommend to both beginners and specialists. I know of no other book on the issue of restitution which comes close to this book in its breadth of knowledge and careful detailed analysis.' ModernGhana.comTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction Magnus Magnusson; 1. The Icelandic manuscripts; 2. The Elgin Marbles debate; 3. British and other European practice; 4. Some British cases; 5. American and Canadian practice; 6. Russia and the former Soviet Union; 7. The Hebrew manuscripts; 8. International and regional regulation; 9. Art theft and the art market; 10. Plunder; 11. The first people; 12. Ground zero; 13. Homecomings: real and virtual; Notes; List of appendices in microfiche in first edition (1989); Select bibliography; Select list of web sites; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice.Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works—formally remove objects from permanent collections—with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessioning by museums from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and exposes the hyperbolic extremes of “deaccession denial”—the assumption that deaccession is always wrong—and “deaccession apology”—when museums justify deaccession by finding some fault in the object—as symptoms of the same misunderstanding of the role of deaccessions in proper museum practice. He chronicles a ser

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Book SynopsisHow curating has changed art and how art has changed curating: an examination of the emergence contemporary curatorship.Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis. The curator has gone from being a behind-the-scenes organizer and selector to a visible, centrally important cultural producer. In The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), Paul O'Neill examines the emergence of independent curatorship and the discourse that helped to establish it.O'Neill describes how, by the 1980s, curated group exhibitions—large-scale, temporary projects with artworks cast as illustrative fragments—came to be understood as th

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Book SynopsisA stunning visual game that helps readers enjoy, appreciate, and identify great works of art.

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Book SynopsisStolen, Smuggled Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures tells the dark and compelling stories of iconic cultural objects that were stolen, smuggled or sold, and eventually returned back to their original owner. The book includes full-color photos of the objects.Trade ReviewMoses, author of Lost in the Museum: Hidden Treasures and the Stories They Tell (2008), considers the provenance of seven cultural treasures including Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I (the subject of the film, Woman in Gold), a ceremonial Ghost Dance shirt from a victim of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee, the mummy of Rameses I, and a typed manuscript of Pearl Buck’s The Good Earth. She reflects on the ethical issues that arose when these 'objects with institutional pedigrees . . . were removed in some way, legal or not.' The stories of these objects range from the dramatic to the heartbreaking to the venal (one is an account of the theft of historical audio discs by an official at the National Archives). In the final chapter, Moses reflects on the moral and legal questions of, in her words, 'who owns—and who should own—the world’s cultural treasures.' Museum goers may never look at an exhibit in quite the same way after reading this impassioned and engaging work. * Booklist *There have been a spate of excellent books recently about the lost treasures of the Holocaust and Moses herself wanted to write about American museums returning the stolen artworks to their rightful owners. Turns out that even the museums who had returned stolen or looted art to its owners were reluctant to speak up as it raised questions about why they had the art to begin with. So Moses went a slightly different route and decided to try to track down a number of missing treasures – from paintings, to manuscripts, to mummies; in America, Europe and the Middle East. Readers follow along with Moses as she tracks down (or tries to track down) each artifact, meeting with the shady and underhanded and those determined to do the right thing. From outright robberies to the 'acquisition' of certain pieces taken from their country of origin to be 'proudly displayed' in an American on European collection. Moses is the real deal, with all the proper museum credential, but she’s also a hell of a writer and brings to mind Thomas Hoving and his splendid stories of shady museum dealings. Highly recommended. * The Books Lover's Best Friend *What comes strongly to mind when one has read this book is the sometime inhumanity of mankind, political scheming, overwhelming greed and the plain stupidity and arrogance of individuals who feel they can get away with their crooked behavior. This book is fast paced written by an author who is au fait with the world of archives, archivists, museums and the historical research needed for each subject. The preface is detailed; there are eight chapters each dealing with an individual 'Cultural Treasure', colour plates, sources, additional reading and an index. Perhaps there might be a future book on other treasures that have been stolen, smuggled and sold? * ImagineMag!: A South African Arts & Culture Magazine *[Stolen, Smuggled, Sold: On the Hunt for Cultural Treasures is] an interesting and well-written book which archive professionals in the UK and Ireland should consider reading. * Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association *Written like a true detective novel, Nancy Moses takes the reader on an informative trek though the high-stakes world of art crime and trafficking. She profiles the cases and actors who labor to profit from the illicit cultural property market and the detectives and agents that combat them. -- Robert K. Wittman, retired FBI Special Agent, founder and former Senior Investigator, FBI National Art Crime Team, and author of the New York Times Best Seller Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World’s Stolen Treasures.This book tells wonderful stories of the provenance and recovery of great artifacts. Part art appreciation, part history, part mystery story, each chapter is a gem of storytelling. -- Nina Segre, Esq., Adjunct Professor, University of California, Hastings

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Book SynopsisThe book includes more than one hundred full-color photographs of the house's graceful exterior, its elegant rooms and furnishings, and the many architectural details that have made Homewood so beloved.Trade ReviewThis beautiful, scholarly publication describes in detail the building, history, and restoration of the house, inside and out... Very highly recommended. Choice 2005 Captured in full detail in a handsome hardcover book. -- Greg Rienzi The Gazette Offers a detailed look into the restoration of the house. Beautiful, informative and compelling. -- Anne Kugielsky Antiques and the Arts Weekly 2005Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Building HomewoodChapter 2. Living at HomewoodChapter 3. Restoring HomewoodAppendix A: Inventory Appraisal of Charles Carroll Jr. of Homewood, 16 April 1825Appendix B: Notes Relating to Homewood Made by Charles Carroll of DoughoreganAppendix C: Catalog of Carroll Family Objects at Homewood HouseAppendix D: Restoration and Reproduction Resources NotesIndex

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Book SynopsisArt collecting in America's Gilded Age was fraught with uncertainty and dubious business practices. In no other partnership is this more evident than that of Henry Walters, and Bernard Berenson, the era's preeminent connoisseur of Italian Renaissance painting. This title tells the story of this close yet contentious relationship.Trade ReviewA pointed account of the relationship between the famous connoisseur and the railroad magnate. -- Robert Messenger Wall Street Journal 2010 Surprisingly, this is the only book ever to focus on just one of Berenson's client relationships. For this and other reasons, every collector-especially the temple-building grandees at work today-should read Mazaroff 's compelling investigation Fine Art Connoisseur 2010Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsForewordAcknowledgmentsPrologue1. Berenson's Mission2. Walters's Cultivation3. One Copy on Top of Another4. The Massarenti Collection5. A Remarkable Acquisition6. The Sacrifice of Candor for Acclaim7. The Walters-Berenson Contract8. The Paintings Berenson Sold to Walters9. Berenson's Faustian Bargain with Duveen10. The Judgment of Berenson11. The Unfinished Catalogue12. A Museum in Repose13. The Line between Fact and Fiction14. Faded MemoriesAfterwordAppendixesa. Letters between Walters and Berensonb. Lists of PaintingNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Norfolk museum that would one day bear the Chrysler name was always a good museum of its kind, home to a respectable collection serving a smallish city. This work paints a vivid picture of this provincial museum's transformation into one of the finest art museums on the East Coast. It also delivers a portrait of Walter Chrysler.

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive history of MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), told through personal accounts and groundbreaking artwork.In 1967, in a time of student unrest, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology did the unexpected: it established the first academic center for research and collaboration in art, science, and technology. The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) brought artists to the MIT campus with radical expressions of a rapidly evolving technological era.The brainchild of founding director Gyorgy Kepes, CAVS sought to repair the distance between practitioners of art and engineering within the halls of MIT. The scientist may be an extra brain to the artist, and the engineer may be an extra arm to the artist, whereas the artist can be an extra eye to the scientist and engineer,” said long-time director Otto Piene in Centerbeam, a 1978 film about a CAVS collaboration. As a breeder of new art forms and future-oriented artistic

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Book SynopsisAcross the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence.This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History Globally? provides an in-depth examinaTrade ReviewThis book will appeal to those engaging with practical history. Each chapter explores Public History whilst engaging with current critical stances. International writers, using academic contexts, clearly illustrate important differences between nations and localities, developing new aspects of Public History. * Hilda Kean, Former Director of Public History, Ruskin College, Oxford, UK *The interrogative title poses an important question. It is answered in wonderfully diverse essays: eleven map the terrain of public history in distinct national contexts; nine examine particular methods and approaches, many across contexts; and four focus on specific sites with striking comparative or trans-national implications. This triangulation complements the editors’ intriguing and suggestive subtitle—‘working with the past in the present”: the collection as a whole is considerably more than the sum of the individually impressive parts. * Michael Frisch, Senior Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor in History, University of Buffalo, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction The Public Turn: History Today, Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik Section 1: Background, Definitions and Issues 1. Public History in Australia: History in Place, Lisa Murray and Mark Dunn 2. Public History in Britain: Repossessing the Past, Mark Donnelly 3. Public History in Canada: Service or Public Service?, Mike Dove and Michelle Hamilton 4. Public History in China: Past Making in the Present, Li Na 5. Public History in Germany: Opening New Spaces, Thorsten Logge and Nico Nolden 6. Public History in India: Towards a People’s Past, Indira Chowdhury and Srijan Mandal 7. Public History in Indonesia: The Old Disorder?, Paul Ashton, Kresno Brahmantyo and Jaya Keaney 8. Public History in New Zealand: From Treaty to Te Papa, Alex Trapeznik 9. Public History in Scandinavia: Uses of the Past, Anne Brædder 10. Public History in South Africa: A Tool for Recovery, Julie Wells 11. Public History in the USA: Institutionalizing Old Practices, Thomas Cauvin Section 2: Approaches and Methods 12. First Encounters: Approaching the Public Past, Meg Foster 13. Affective Afterlives: Public History, Archaeology and the Material Turn, Denis Byrne 14. The Archaeological Archive: Material Traces and Recovered Histories, Tracy Ireland 15. Archives and Public History: A Developing Partnership, Jeannette Bastian and Stephanie Krauss 16. ‘Speak, Memory’: Current Issues in Oral and Public History, Paula Hamilton 17. Who do you Think You Are?: The Family in Public History, Anna Green 18. Love Thy Neighbour: Local and Community history, Tanya Evans 19. Grass-Roots Activism, Heritage and Cultural Landscape: A Community Case Study, Keir Reeves and Jacqueline Z. Wilson 20. Past Continuous: Digital public history and social media, Serge Noiret Section 3: Sites of Public History 21. Remembering Dark Pasts and Horrific Places: Sites of Conscience, Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson 22. #Fake History: The State of Heritage Interpretation, Sue Hodges 23. ‘The air still rings with the excitement of Spanish life’: Ybor City and the Cuban Cigar, Christopher J. Castañeda 24. Forgetting and Remembering in Bhopal: Architects as Agents of Memory, Amritha Ballal and Moulshri Joshi Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures brings together historic objects, documents, artwork, and the natural and built environments to tell the full story of this important event in American history. The American Civil War still matters. It matters because the war ¾ its causes and its consequences ¾ continue to influence America as a nation. At its core, the Civil War was about slavery. Began as a fight to secure the future of slavery, the Civil War resulted instead in the abolition of slavery. The complex racial issues at its core, however, remain with us today. Exploring the American Civil War through 50 Historic Treasures begins with the causes of the war, examining objects that tell the story of slavery and its expansion in the nineteenth century. Cultural treasures representing the war years explore the battlefield and the homefront and the men and women caught up in the war as well the ways in which the scale of the war forced technological innovations. Given the centrality of slavery, race, and emancipation in the story of the Civil War, one section presents objects that detail how free and enslaved blacks transformed the war effort and were in turn transformed by the war. In the final section, the historic treasures trace the ongoing impact of the war, including the dramatic increase in the removal of Confederate monuments in the summer of 2020. Each object's story is detailed with color photos that draw readers into the story of the American Civil War. Many of these objects appear here in print for the first time.Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceObject TimelineCivil War TimelineIntroductionAcknowledgementsPart One: Causes For Sale – “A Day I’ll Never Forgit” Good Credit, Good Prices, & Good Profits: The Slave Labor Economy Buy for the Sake of the Slave!: Quakers, Antislavery, and the Boycott of Slave Labor Strike a Blow for Freedom: Black Activism and the Abolitionist Movement “I will be harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice”: The Antebellum Antislavery Movement Bleeding Kansas, Bleeding Sumner: Challenges to the Expansion of Slavery in the West Part Two: Politics “A Man Kidnapped!”: Northern Resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 “Honest Old Abe is Bound to Win”: The Election of 1860 The Union is Dissolved!: The Secession Crisis “Strike for Your Altars and Your Fires!”: The Fight for the Border States Securing Alliances: The Confederate Government and the Five Tribes John Bull Makes a Choice: Cotton and International Politics Part Three: Battlefield A Sacred Emblem of the Battle of Glorieta Pass Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site: The Indian Wars in the Civil War Era A Terrible Slaughter: The Battle of Gettysburg “We Will Prove Ourselves Men”: The United States Colored Troops Caring for the Wounded: Nurses in the Civil War “His names was Bidwell Pedley”: Caring for the Dead during the Civil War Part Four: Officers “Let them surrender and go home”: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee at Appomattox Court House Lee’s Right Army: Stonewall Jackson “The Beast”: Benjamin Butler and the Occupation of New Orleans The “Father of Black Nationalism”: Martin Delany Part Five: Soldiers “Those d—d black hatted fellows”: The Iron Brigade of the West Lee’s Shock Troops: Hood’s Texas Brigade “What is to be done with the prisoners?”: Union and Confederate Prisons Days of Infamy and Disgrace: The New York City Draft Riots The Evolution of the Union Cavalry Part Six: Home Front “The Last Thought of a Dying Father”: The Northern Home Front “Bread or Blood!”: The Southern Home Front during the Civil War “Pounding on the Rock”: African American Families in the Civil War North “I Wanted to Be My Own General”: Guerilla Warfare and the Homefront On Her Own: The Texas Home Front during the Civil War Part Seven: Symbols “The Speechless Agony of the Fettered Slave”: The Symbolism of the Antislavery Movement “The Little Woman Who Made the Great War”: Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom’s Cabin “If you want my flag, you’ll have to take it over my dead body”: National and Regimental Flags during the Civil War Setting the Beat for War: Popular Music in the North and the South Part Eight: Technology The Great Locomotive Chaise: Railroads and Military Strategy A Scientific Foundation for Medical Care: The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion “A curious marine monster”: Ironclads and Riverine Warfare The Silk Dress Balloon: Aeronautics in the Civil War Part Nine: Emancipation Freedom’s Fort: The Beginnings of Emancipation An Abolition War: The Emancipation Proclamation Troubled Refuge: Contraband Camps A New Birth of Freedom: Thirteenth Amendment Help Me Find My People: Reconstructing Black Families Part Ten: Legacy “I Won’t Be Reconstructed”: Southerners and Confederate Defeat Memorializing the Dead: Race, Heritage, and the Lost Cause Reconciliation and Reunion: Blue and Gray Reunions in the Post-Civil War Era The Black Confederate Story: Civil War History and Memory in the Age of the Internet Stone Mountain: Confederate Monuments in the Twenty-First Century AfterwordIndexBibliographyAbout the Author

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Book SynopsisHealthcare history is more than leeches and drilling holes in skulls. It is stories of scientific failures and triumphs. Exploring American Healthcare History through 50 Historic Treasures presents a visual and narrative history of health and medicine in the United States, tracing paradigm shifts such as the introduction of anesthesia, the adoption of germ theory, and advances in public health. The book provides windows into ordinary people’s experiences with different schools of thought about treatment, from patent medicines and faith healing to hospital-based clinical trials. Exploring American Healthcare History showcases little-known objects that illustrate the complexities of our relationship with health, like a set of teeth from a small town in Arkansas where the link between fluoride and dental health was first discovered. It also highlights famous moments in medicine, such as the discovery of penicillin, and puts them into social and cultural context. Exploring American Healthcare History through 50 Historic Treasures will discuss concepts that are key to history curricula and to using history as a lens to understand society. The concepts include healthcare’s intersection with race, law, and changing cultural attitudes in a society shaped by science, religion, and economic forces. The choice of “healthcare” as the focus reflects the fact that the book encompasses conventional medicine, surgery, nursing, alternative medicines, and public health. The book discusses some areas of healthcare history in which practitioners were led by bias or greed rather than evidence. Some patent medicines, for example, lived up to their reputation as get-rich-quick schemes for their inventors. A few of the historic artifacts in the book, such as eugenics medals awarded to families with “good” genes, are treasures in the sense that they are a vital connection to shameful episodes in our past. The book explores artifacts and historic sites as individual things or places with their own stories, and as objects and sites representative of larger trends.This full-color book with over 50 photographs of artifacts like a beer advertised as harnessing the health-giving power of the sun show how the advancing science of health touched people’s everyday lives as well as their doctor visits. Patent medicines and machines highlight ways that people avoided or reacted to mainstream medicine, like faith healing, commercial nostrums, and alternative medicine. Thermometers and mold-culturing pans provide a tour of developments such as professional nursing and the “miracle drug” penicillin, while offering insight into epidemics from tuberculosis, plague, and the 1918 flu to HIV and opioid misuse. Historical caregivers featured include Pedro Jaramillo, a Mexican-American curandero, Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte, a trailblazing Omaha medical doctor, and Mattie Donnell Hicks, a Black nurse who served with both segregated and integrated units in the Army Corps of Nurses. This book describes the days when surgeons worked on patients without anesthesia and wiped their scalpels on their coats, and the day that EMTs raced to provide help when the Twin Towers were attacked in 2001, providing insight relevant to today’s problems and colorful anecdotes along the way.

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Book SynopsisDrawing on years of experience, Maria Piacente details the exhibition process in a straightforward way that can be easily adapted by institutions of any size. She and her contributing authors explore the exhibition development process in greater detail, providing the technical and practical methodologies museum professionals need today.

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Book SynopsisWisteria House is a North Andover, Massachusetts landmark, named for the vigorous vine that has flourished on the veranda for more than 150 years. More properly known as the Field-Hodges House, it belonged to only two families. The last owner, Sarah Moore Field, died in 1988, leaving her home completely furnished and packed to the rafters with the accumulated belongings of three generations and hoping that it would become a historic house museum. It did not. A variety of circumstances required a more creative solution. Wisteria House: Life in a New England Home, 1839-2000 is a key element of that solution. It is a permanent record of the lives lived in a particular house in a particular town at a particular time based on the buildings, furnishings, clothing, personal effects, photographs, correspondence, and financial papers of two upper-middle class families. The text and illustrations address gender roles, childhood and education, household economy, health and medicine, work and leisure, and community history. The themes of public history, preservation, and stewardship underpin the narrative. The story of the Field-Hodges Houses lies at the intersection of well-meaning, devoted amateurs trying to save a beloved old house and professionals charged with the dispassionate consideration of the financial viability and public relevance necessary for a successful historic house museum. The book is unique in that it is the final component of a preservation project. After the building and grounds were secured, the significant collections safely in the hands of public institutions, financial obligations met, and the intent of a Last Will and Testament fulfilled, Wisteria House preserves the history itself. As an example of stewardship, the entire project occupies a notable position in the current debate over the future of historic house museums in America. Table of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: One of the Finest Locations in Town, 1839–1874 Chapter 2: Retirement, 1874–1889Chapter 3: The Price of Prosperity and Privilege, 1889–1905Chapter 4: Prosperity and Loss, 1905–1939Chapter 5: Sarah Alone, 1939–1985Chapter 6: After Sarah, 1986–2018Suggested ReadingEndnotesIndex

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Book SynopsisDebating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers.

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Book SynopsisIn this volume of 29 essays, Weil's overarching concern is that museums be able to “earn their keep”—that they make themselves matter—in an environment of potentially shrinking resources. Also included in this collection are reflections on the special qualities of art museums, an investigation into the relationship of current copyright law to the visual arts, a detailed consideration of how the museums and legal system of the United States have coped with the problem of Nazi-era art, and a series of delightfully provocative training exercises for those anticipating entry into the museum field.

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Book SynopsisThe United States has long been dependent on the seas, but Americans know little about their maritime history. While Britain and other countries have established national museums to nurture their seagoing traditions, America has left that responsibility to private institutions. In this first-of-its-kind history, James M. Lindgren focuses on a half-dozen of these great museums, ranging from Salem's East India Marine Society, founded in 1799, to San Francisco's Maritime Museum and New York's South Street Seaport Museum, which were established in recent decades.Begun by activists with unique agendas -- whether overseas empire, economic redevelopment, or cultural preservation -- these museums have displayed the nation's complex interrelationship with the sea. Yet they all faced chronic shortfalls, as policymakers, corporations, and everyday citizens failed to appreciate the oceans' formative environment. Preserving Maritime America shows how these institutions shifted course to remain solvent and relevant and demonstrates how their stories tell of the nation's rise and decline as a commercial maritime power.

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Book SynopsisThe Ritidian Site in Guam contains multiple layers and components that together reveal the full scope of traditional cultural heritage in the Mariana Islands in the northwest tropical Pacific since 1500 B.C., dating from the beginning of human settlement of the Remote Pacific Islands. The material records of changing artefacts, sites, and landscapes here have been incorporated into a cohesive narrative in chronological order, mirroring the experience of visiting a museum to learn about the profound heritage of this special site and its larger research contributions. The primary data findings are presented as a translation or visitor’s guide of encountering a complex, multi-layered, and multi-vocal past.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Life, Lore, and Landscape of a Stirring Place; Chapter 2 Natural Setting; Chapter 3 Cultural Traditions; Chapter 4 Written History; Chapter 5 De-coding the Archaeological Records; Chapter 6 Ritidian at 1500–1100 B.C.; Chapter 7 Ritidian at 1100–700 B.C.; Chapter 8 Ritidian at 700 B.C. –A.D. 1; Chapter 9 Ritidian at A.D. 1–500; Chapter 10 Ritidian at A.D. 500–1000; Chapter 11 Ritidian at A.D. 1000–1700; Chapter 12 Living Legacy; References

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Book SynopsisLatest volume (first in Canada) of Scala's successful series of walking guides. Invaluable companion to a museum whose focus is on an interactive experience. Guide to the world's first museum to be dedicated solely to human rights. Human rights is an especially pertinent subject in today's uncertain world. The Canadian Museum for Human Rights is the world's first museum solely dedicated to the evolution, celebration and future of human rights. It is Canada's first national museum to be built in nearly half a century, and the first outside the National Capital Region. This Director's Tour is the perfect companion to the immersive, interactive experience the Museum offers its visitors - Director John Young provides an engaging, personal guide to the structure, themes and philosophy of this unique institution.

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Book SynopsisThe Australian South Sea Islander (ASSI) minority community has a contested indentured labour background and involvement in the Australian sugar cane industry which has resulted in a consequent paucity of material culture and other records. This paucity, in a sense, forms a substantive part of The Secret Life of Memorials: Through the Memory Lens of the Australian South Sea Islanders as it is argued that memory places, rather than static artefactual stand-ins for the past, are dynamic material culture which have agency and relevance in the present, participating in the on-going post-colonial process. Although a material culture study focused on the materialised expression of memory, this research allows discussion beyond typologies, styles and categories to consider the relational meaning and distributed agency of these objects within the complex network of public memory. In addition to considerations of their symbolic, mnemonic or representational reflections of the past, contemporary memorials are discussed as extensions of the original ASSI event to which they refer, a part of a continuous process that is helping to shape current communities. This encompassing approach, from historical experience to present day memory enactment strategies, employs a variety of theoretical arguments, contributing a new method for comprehending and including the many interleaving aspects of memory spaces, of interest to heritage professionals, local councils and governing bodies, and members of the general public.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 3: Theoretical Concepts - Liminal Spaces Chapter 2: Research Context - Literatures Chapter 4: The Memory Practices - Material Constructs Chapter 5: Embedded Memory - Language Based Chapter 6: Entangled Memory - Cognitive Meaning Chapter 7: Interactive Memory - Philosophical Constructs Chapter 8: Networked Memory Chapter 9: Conclusion Appendix 1: Legislation Appendix 2: Australian South Sea Islander Organisations Appendix 3: Visitor Centre Email Template Appendix 4: Extended Detail Data Base Appendix 5: QHR Original Record for SSI Sugar Wagon Trail Yeppoon References

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Book Synopsis‘Our Lincolnshire’ (2015-16) was devised as a robust, multi-vocally informed exploration of the attitudes of residents and visitors in Lincolnshire to the county’s heritage and the ways in which they engage with it. The context for this was the recognition amongst the county heritage sector of a disconnect between citizens of Lincolnshire and heritage beyond the city of Lincoln which presents challenges when the purpose and function of museums and heritage services need to be reviewed, especially when funding issues are impacting on this process. Understanding attitudes and re-connecting the various audiences in Lincolnshire with their rural heritage in a meaningful and creative way is thus required to ensure the continued collection, curation and presentation of heritage assets is effective in caring for heritage now and for future generations and ensuring the heritage resource reflects, meets and advances the interests, needs and aspirations of Lincolnshire’s residents and visitors today. This volume outlines the methods, data, outcomes and recommendations that generated from this multi-dimensional and innovative research and engagement process.Table of ContentsExecutive Summary; 1. Introduction; 2. Our Lincolnshire Heritage Survey; 3. My Lincolnshire Collection: Creative Digital Web App; 4. Lincolnshire’s Cricket Heritage; 5. Performing Lincolnshire Heritage ; 6. Project Outputs ; 7. Conclusions; APPENDIX 1: LINCOLNSHIRE POSTCODES; APPENDIX 2: ‘OUR LINCOLNSHIRE’ HERITAGE SURVEY; APPENDIX 3: MY LINCOLNSHIRE COLLECTION; APPENDIX 4: CRICKET STRAND; APPENDIX 5: PERFORMANCE STRAND

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Book SynopsisThe 12th Egypt and Austria conference (Zagreb, 17–22 September 2018) was organised by the Egypt and Austria Society and the Faculty of the Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb. The event took place in the Croatian Institute of History (Opatička 10, Zagreb). The main theme of the conference was current research related to the interactions between Egypt and the states of the former Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire up to the middle of the 20th century. During the conference more than 39 papers were presented, of which 26 are presented in this proceedings volume.Table of ContentsEgypt and Austria – Egypt and the Orient: Current Research ; Chapter 1: Early travellers to Egypt and the Middle East ; Letters from Vienna: Richard Pococke en route to Egypt – Rachel Finnegan ; Terryfying Unreason or a Model of Toleration? Imagining Islam in Fictional Travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius – Lucie Storchová ; Epidemics between Europe and Egypt in a rediscovered work of Giuseppe Nizzoli – Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo & Irene Guidotti ; Chapter 2: Travellers to Egypt and the Orient in the middle and the second half of the 19th century ; Jakov Šašel: The origins of his Travelogue – Sanda Kočevar ; Carlo de Marchesetti: An Austrian botanist in the land of the pharaohs – Susanna Moser ; Prokesch-Osten jr (1837-1919) – Angela Blaschek ; The Bombardment of Alexandria 1882 in the writings of Milan Jovanović Morski – Vera Vasiljević ; Mária Fáy, the first Hungarian woman traveller and her journey to the Orient – Eszter Feró ; Chapter 3: Formation pf Egyptian collections ; The Egyptian coffin and mummy of Stephan Delhaes and other mummies from Akhmim in Hungary – Éva Liptay ; Oriental Paintings in the former Keglević Château Topol'čianky – Marta Herucová ; Aegyptiaca and an exhibition in Presburg/Pratislava in 1865 – Jozef Hudec ; Egyptology in the Varaždin area: the contribution of the Bombelles family and the Paszhtory – Varady family – Anja Kovačić ; The Egyptian collection of the Museum of Slavonia and its donors – Marina Kovač ; Chapter 4: Egypt in art/Orientalist art ; Carl Rudolf Huber and the Temptation of the East – Ernst Czerny ; Adolf Loos’s purchase in 1914: The story of Ivan Napotnik and his Egyptian woman – Vesna Kamin Kajfež ; Chapter 5: Travellers to Egypt in the first half of the 20th century ; Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin’s voyage from Križevci to Alexandria – Ivana Funda ; Fran Srećko Gundrum Oriovčanin in Luxor (4th-7th December 1902): The search for key comparative narratives in his diary – Mladen Tomorad ; Gundrum’s description of the construction and grand opening of the Old Aswan Dam in 1902 – Margareta Filipović-Srhoj ; From Habsburg Galicia to the Ottoman Egypt. Impressions from A voyage to Egypt by Stanisław Trzeciak (1904) – Grzegorz First ; Karel Pečnik: A Slovenian physician in Egypt – Jaro Lajovic ; Ivan Meštrović’s correspondence to Ruža Meštrović from Egypt and the Middle East in 1927: The artist’s fascination with Egypt reflected in his picture postcards to Ruža Meštrović – Sabina Kaštelančić ; Chapter 6: Egyptian revival and Egyptomania ; A case of modern-day burialS in ancient Egyptian sarcophagi – Tomislav Kajfež ; Egyptianising Funerary Architecture in Budapest – Andrea Fullér ; Images of Egypt in Zagreb from the 19th and 20th centuries: buildings, monuments, street furniture – Marina Bagarić ; Ivan Meštrović – creating art for eternity: Meštrović’s fascination with ancient Egypt as illustrated in the family mausoleum in Otavice – Zorana Jurić Šabić ; Chapter 7: Other studies ; A new approach to old sound recordings from Morocco – Clemens Gütl

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Book SynopsisDesde su nacimiento en la Sierra de Cazorla hasta su desembocadura en el océano Atlántico, el río Guadalquivir ha sido a lo largo de la Historia un factor identitario de las comunidades asentadas en torno a él. Los recursos proporcionados por el propio río, sus afluentes y su extenso valle han contribuido a la supervivencia, bienestar y desarrollo de diferentes culturas. Fruto de esta relación entre el hombre y el territorio se han ido generando diversos paisajes culturales. No obstante, la situación política, económica y sanitaria de los últimos años ha provocado que la sostenibilidad de algunos de ellos se vea amenazada, al igual que sus bienes patrimoniales, condenados en muchos casos al abandono y el olvido. La presente monografía surge con el objetivo de reflexionar sobre esta compleja situación desde múltiples perspectivas, incluyendo la arqueología, el medio natural, la didáctica, las nuevas tecnologías y el turismo. Para ello hemos contado con la colaboración de reputados profesionales e investigadores procedentes de diversos ámbitos académicos. Entre todos hemos tratado de analizar diversas realidades, exponer las necesidades patrimoniales a la que nos enfrentamos hoy y sugerir propuestas para (re)activar las industrias culturales de la cuenca del Guadalquivir. Table of ContentsArqueología, patrimonio y paisaje: reflexiones desde la transversalidad – Desiderio Vaquerizo Gil ARQUEOLOGÍA El paisaje en la Antigüedad Clásica a través del mosaico romano en el Valle del Guadalquivir – Luz Neira Jiménez Gestión y difusión del patrimonio arqueológico en Écija. Evolución y perspectivas – Sergio García-Dils de la Vega Minas de agua históricas en Carmona. Inventario y patrimonialización – Juan Manuel Román Rodríguez El mundo funerario romano en la Baja Andalucía. Del registro arqueológico a su proyección social – Lucía Fernández Sutilo Los arrabales occidentales entre la sociedad cordobesa. Estado de la cuestión y propuestas de futuro – Elena Morales Zafra El Complejo Industrial de la Alianza, en Puente Genil (Córdoba). La Arqueología Industrial como recuperación de señas de identidad – Manuel Delgado Torres, David Jaén Cubero, MoniqueVetancourt León y Samuel Lahoz Morón El papel de las nuevas tecnologías en la investigación y difusión del patrimonio arqueológico – Gonzalo García Vegas Arqueología Virtual en el Metaverso – Juan Carlos Prieto Luna PAISAJES PATRIMONIALES El patrimonio litoral onubense: evolución de sus paisajes culturales y naturales a lo largo de su historia. Claves para su interpretación y divulgación – Javier Bermejo Meléndez, Luis Javier Sánchez Hernando, Juan M. Campos Carrasco y Damián Ponce González El medio natural al servicio de los asentamientos humanos: Giribaile – Luis María Gutiérrez Soler y Francisco Pérez Alba Nuevas perspectivas para el estudio de identidades patrimoniales en el Alto Guadalquivir – María Alejo Armijo Simbiosis entre paisaje natural y cultural en la Comarca de la Sierra de Cazorla (Jaén): la arquitectura defensiva medieval – F. Javier Sevilla Martínez Los bancales de Córdoba en el borde meridional de Sierra Morena – Francisco José Gamero Gutiérrez Patrimonio hidráulico en el entorno del río Guadalquivir (Córdoba). Integración en el paisaje actual y visibilización social – José Antonio López Fernández y Francisco Valverde Fernández La conservación del Patrimonio en Córdoba. Propuesta para un Mapa de Necesidades – Ana Ruiz Osuna Patrimonio cultural para el equilibrio urbano-territorial. Áreas rurales y ciudades medias en la provincia de Córdoba – Blanca del Espino Hidalgo DIDÁCTICA DEL MEDIO GEOGRÁFICO E HISTÓRICO La participación del alumnado en los procesos de reconstrucción histórica. Experiencias giennenses – Francisco Pérez Alba y Luis María Gutiérrez Soler La Villa Romana de Fuente Álamo en el Aula: Arqueología, Educación y Nuevas Tecnologías – Samuel Lahoz Morón, David Jaén Cubero y Manuel Delgado Torres La educación ambiental en la formación del profesorado: Córdoba y el Guadalquivir – Silvia Medina Quintana El patrimonio cultural en los manuales escolares de Ciencias Sociales en Educación Primaria – Ramón Martínez Medina El patrimonio paisajístico andaluz en las narrativas de los niños y niñas de Educación Primaria – Roberto García-Morís y Patricia Suárez Álvarez Entender los paisajes del Guadalquivir. Recursos y mecanismos para su asimilación entre el alumnado – Covadonga Ávila Marín La enseñanza de la historia local en los municipios del Valle del Guadalquivir en la formación del profesorado: métodos y recursos didácticos – Miguel Jesús López Serrano y Rafael Guerrero Elecalde Historicismo y didáctica en las restauraciones del Patrimonio Histórico de Córdoba – Guillermo L. López Merino TURISMO HISTÓRICO-ARQUEOLÓGICO Volver al pasado. Origen y evolución de los viajes arqueológicos por Andalucía – Belén Vázquez Navajas El turismo arqueológico en el Valle del Guadalquivir: ¿Contamos con una oferta online de calidad? – Leonor M. Pérez Naranjo y Maribel Rodríguez Zapatero La contribución de las empresas de turismo cultural a los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en los municipios andaluces – Maribel Rodríguez Zapatero y Leonor M. Pérez Naranjo La muerte como recurso turístico en el marco andaluz – Genoveva Dancausa Millán Realidad Virtual: una nueva experiencia turística y cultural – Mercedes Alonso García OTRAS EXPERIENCIAS La chiesa di Santa Maria dei Greci nel centro storico di Agrigento (Sicilia, Italia) tra Archeologia, Patrimonio, Turismo e Didattica – Simona Sanzo

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Book SynopsisIn an age of protest, culture and museums have come under fire. Protests of museum funding (for example, the Metropolitan Museum accepting Sackler family money) and boards (for example, the Whitney appointing tear gas manufacturer Warren Kanders)--to say nothing of demonstrations over exhibitions and artworks--have roiled cultural institutions across the world, from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi to the Akron Art Museum. At the same time, never have there been more calls for museums to work for social change, calls for the emergence of a new role for culture.As director of the Queens Museum, Laura Raicovich helped turn that New York municipal institution into a public commons for art and activism, organizing high-powered exhibitions that were also political protests. Then in January, 2018, she resigned, after a dispute with the Queens Museum board and city officials became a public controversy--she had objected to the Israeli government using the museum for an event featuring vice president Mike Pence.In this book, Raicovich explains some of the key museum flashpoints, and she also provides historical context for the current controversies. She shows how art museums arose as colonial institutions bearing an ideology of neutrality that masks their role in upholding capitalist values. And she suggests how museums can be reinvented to serve better, public ends.Trade ReviewUrgent -- Travis Diehl * art-agenda *[Culture Strike] brilliantly problematizes the pervasive old myth of "neutrality." -- Dessane Lopez Cassell * Hyperallergic *A must-read ... Culture Strike contains layers of honest observation from museum professionals, loving critique, historical context, and case studies that illuminate the best and worst in museum culture to offer a clear path forward. -- Cara Ober * BmoreArt *Maps out thoughtful considerations of pressing subjects that apply everywhere. Among them are the private power of philanthropy, the practical and spiritual benefits of staff diversity, unionizing cultural institutions, and the contours of museums' social responsibility. -- Christopher Knight * Los Angeles Times *Offers key contextual and historical lenses through which to consider protests that have occurred at institutions worldwide, addressing topics from museum funding to workers' rights. * Ocula *An engaging and personally invested discussion of the many controversies that have engulfed American museums -- JJ Charlesworth * ArtReview *

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