After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left in many German and Polish cities with prewar histories rich in the sights and sounds of Jewish life. What happened to this scarred landscape after the …
"After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left in many German and Polish cities with prewar histories rich in the sights and sounds of Jewish life. What happened to this scarred landscape after the…
After the Holocaust, the empty, silent spaces of bombed-out synagogues, cemeteries, and Jewish districts were all that was left in many German and Polish cities with prewar histories rich in the sights and sounds of Jewish life. What happened to this scarred landscape after the …
America's leading historians talk about the sites where the past comes alive for them.
Introduction, William Leuchtenburg. Cyberspace, U.S.A., Edward L. Ayers. Pennsylvania Avenue: The Avenue of The Presidents, Paul Boller, Jr. A Monument for Barre: Memory in a Massachusetts Town, T.H. Breen. Greensboro, North Carolina: A Window on Race in the American South, Will…
Today, the Great War stands at the edge of living memory. Nearly every month some dramatic discovery is made in the killing fields of the Western Front: poignant remains of British soldiers, " underground cities" or & field hospitals carved out of the chalk country of the Somme.…
4e de couv.: From international law to artifact preservation to site interpretation, this book provides a much-needed diversity of voices and perspectives from people steeped in the issues that directly affect the future of the past.
Even as places and objects that have particular cultural significance are increasingly valued in our global world, powerful forces threaten them with destruction. Cultural Heritage Management discusses the efforts of a broad range of contributors devoted to safeguarding our cult…
This is the first volume to fully explore the complex relationship between war and tourism by considering its full range of dynamics; including political, psychological, economic and ideological factors at different levels, in different political and geographical locations. Issu…