From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800–1940
From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800–1940
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Abstract
What was the effect of the British empire on the cultures and civilizations of the peoples over whom it ruled? This book takes a novel approach to this important and controversial subject by considering the impact of empire on the idea of ‘heritage’. It reveals a dazzling variety of attitudes on the part of the imperialists — from frank ‘plunder’ of American, Asian, African, and Pacific peoples' cultural artefacts and monuments to a growing appreciation of the need for ‘preservation’ of the world's heritage in the places it originated. But it goes beyond the empire-centred view to consider how far colonized peoples themselves were able to embed indigenous understandings of their heritage in the empire, and how indeed the empire was very often dependent on indigenous knowledge for its own functioning. This book's case studies and unusual illustrations range from an extraordinary Anglo-African cathedral in the Sudan to palm leaf manuscripts in Sri Lanka, from Mayan and Indian temples to Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford-on-Avon.
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Front Matter
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Part I Introduction
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Part II The Classical World
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Part III The Biblical World
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Part IV Empires and Civilizations
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Appropriation to Supremacy: Ideas of the ‘Native’ in the Rise of British Imperial Heritage
Sujit Sivasundaram
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Monument Preservation and the Vexing Question of Religious Structures in Colonial India
Indra Sengupta
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Representing Ancient Egypt at Imperial High Noon (1882–1922): Egyptological Careers and Artistic Allegories of Civilization
Donald Malcolm Reid
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Appropriation to Supremacy: Ideas of the ‘Native’ in the Rise of British Imperial Heritage
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Part V The New World
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Publication as Preservation at a Remote Maya Site in the Early Twentieth Century
Donna Yates
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Plunder or Preservation? Negotiating an Anglo-American Heritage in the Later Nineteenth Century in the Old World and the New: Shakespeare’s Birthplace, Niagara Falls, and Carlyle’s House
Melanie Hall
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Dying Americans: Race, Extinction, and Conservation in the New World
Sadiah Qureshi
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Publication as Preservation at a Remote Maya Site in the Early Twentieth Century
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