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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jessica Evans; David Boswell |
| ISBN: | 0415208696 9780415208697 041520870X 9780415208703 |
| OCLC Number: | 40925846 |
| Notes: | Published in association with The Open University. |
| Description: | 471 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by David Boswell and Jessica Evans. |
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- Musées -- Aspect politique.
- Nationalisme.
- Nation.
- Caractéristiques nationales.
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- Cultura (aspectos políticos)
- Museus (aspectos políticos)
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