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Book SynopsisTakes us around the world to tell the compelling story of how museums today are making sense of immigration and globalization. This book provides a close-up view of how different kinds of institutions balance nationalism and cosmopolitanism.
Trade Review"An illuminating study that will be of interest to academics and museum professionals working in the field today." Publishers Weekly "Ambitious, well-written, and significant." Library Journal "Experimental - interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, self-critical, heterodox - approaches to art will have to be tried out if an audience for history, which is only as alive as our sense of investment in it, is not to be lost. (For a comparative look at some recent methods, I recommend Peggy Levitt's 'Artifacts and Allegiances: How Museums Put the Nation and the World on Display,'" -- Holland Cotter New York Times "Artifacts and Allegiances is a compelling narrative whose insight and passion is well-supported by rich and rigorous sociological analysis, ultimately offering a welcome contribution to scholars across disciplines interested in museums, global politics, and the culture of place." Society
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. The Bog and the Beast: The View of the Nation and the World from Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Gothenburg 2. The Legislator and the Priest: Cosmopolitan Nationalism in Boston and New York 3. Arabia and the East: How Singapore and Doha Display the Nation and the World Conclusion Notes Bibliography List of Plates Image Credits Index
