Representing the nation : a reader : histories, heritage and museums

Evans, Jessica. (Added Author). Boswell, David. (Added Author).

Summary: Representing the Nation gathers key writings from leading cultural thinkers to ask what role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation.

Record details

ISBN: 0415208696 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780415208697 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 041520870X (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780415208703 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
471 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Publisher: London New York : Routledge, 1999.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Published in association with The Open University.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Tradition and translation: national culture in its global context / Kevin Robins --Culture, community, nation / Stuart Hall -- History and modernity: reflections on the theory of nationalism / Anthony D. Smith -- Mass-producing traditons: Europe, 1870-1914 / Eric Hobsbawm -- Englishness and the national culture / Philip Dodd -- Trafficking in history / Patrick Wright -- The climate of decline / Robert Hewison -- Resurrectionism / Raphael Samuel -- Fatal attractions / Chris Rojek -- Gazing on history / John Urry -- National monuments / Richard D. Altick -- Fear of circuses: founding the national museum of Victoria / David Goodman -- The Chicago World's Columbian expostion of 1893: "and was Jerusalem builded here?" / Robert W. Rydell -- From the princely gallery to the public art museum: the Louvre museum and the national gallery, London / Carol Duncan -- The exhibitionary complex / Tony Bennett -- Attempts to define 'museum' / Kenneth Hudson -- Useful culture / Tony Bennett -- Cultural policy: research and the government imperative / Colin Mercer -- Museums are good to think: heritage on view in India / Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge -- Rewriting the museums' fictions: taxonomies, stories and readers / Sharon Macdonald and Roger Silverstone -- Museums as contact zones / James Clifford.