A Heritage Deferred
Author: Clarence A. Glasrud
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 180
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Author: Clarence A. Glasrud
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ku-ring-gai (N.S.W.). Council
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Published: 1966
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kathleen Neils Conzen
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 0873517342
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA concise history of Germans in Minnesota including immigration patterns, the Catholic and Lutheran churches, cultural organizations, businesses, and politics, especially in the World War I years.
Author: Ku-ring-gai (N.S.W.). Council
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Published: 2015
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William R. Chapman
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 2013-07-31
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 0824836316
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient ruins of Southeast Asia have long sparked curiosity and romance in the world’s imagination. They appear in accounts of nineteenth-century French explorers, as props for Indiana Jones’ adventures, and more recently as the scene of Lady Lara Croft’s fantastical battle with the forces of evil. They have been featured in National Geographic magazine and serve as backdrops for popular television travel and reality shows. Now William Chapman’s expansive new study explores the varied roles these monumental remains have played in the histories of Southeast Asia’s modern nations. Based on more than fifteen years of travel, research, and visits to hundreds of ancient sites, A Heritage of Ruins shows the close connection between “ruins conservation” and both colonialism and nation building. It also demonstrates the profound impact of European-derived ideas of historic and aesthetic significance on ancient ruins and how these continue to color the management and presentation of sites in Southeast Asia today. Angkor, Pagan (Bagan), Borobudur, and Ayutthaya lie at the center of this cultural and architectural tour, but less visited sites, including Laos’s stunning Vat Phu, the small temple platforms of Malaysia’s Lembah Bujang Valley, the candi of the Dieng Plateau in Java, and the ruins of Mingun in Burma and Wiang Kum Kam near Chiang Mai in northern Thailand, are also discussed. All share a relative isolation from modern urban centers of population, sitting in park-like settings, serving as objects of tourism and as lynchpins for local and even national economies. Chapman argues that these sites also remain important to surrounding residents, both as a means of income and as continuing sources of spiritual meaning. He examines the complexities of heritage efforts in the context of present-day expectations by focusing on the roles of both outside and indigenous experts in conservation and management and on attempts by local populations to reclaim their patrimony and play a larger role in protection and interpretation. Tracing the history of interventions aimed at halting time’s decay, Chapman provides a chronicle of conservation efforts over a century and a half, highlighting the significant part foreign expertise has played in the region and the ways that national programs have, in recent years, begun to break from earlier models. The book ends with suggestions for how Southeast Asian managers and officials might best protect their incomparable heritage of art and architecture and how this legacy might be preserved for future generations.
Author: Margaret Wyatt
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on National Parks
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 64
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Duncan Marshall
Publisher: UNESCO
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9231041940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Antonio Calcagno
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2007-06-01
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1441158952
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis exciting new book makes a major contribution to Continental philosophy, bringing together for the first time the crucial work on politics by two giants of contemporary French philosophy, Jacques Derrida and Alain Badiou. Derrida has long been recognised as one of the most influential and indeed controversial thinkers in contemporary philosophy and Badiou is fast emerging as a central figure in French thought, as well as in Anglo-American philosophy - his magnum opus, Being and Event, and its long-awaited sequel, Logics of Worlds, have confirmed his position as one of the most significant thinkers working in philosophy today. Both philosophers have devoted a substantial amount of their oeuvre to politics and the question of the nature of the political. Here Antonio Calcagno shows how the political views of these two major thinkers diverge and converge, thus providing a comprehensive exposition of their respective political systems. Both Badiou and Derrida give the event a central role in structuring politics and political thinking and Calcagno advances a theory about the relationship between political events and time that can account for both political undecidability and decidability. This book navigates some very intriguing developments in Continental thought and offers a clear and fascinating account of the political theories of two major contemporary thinkers.