The heritage industry : Britain in a climate of decline / Robert Hewison ; [drawings by Chris Orr, photographs by Allan Titmuss].

Main entry:

Hewison, Robert, 1943-

Title & Author:

The heritage industry : Britain in a climate of decline / Robert Hewison ; [drawings by Chris Orr, photographs by Allan Titmuss].

Publication:

London : Methuen London, 1987.

Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

A Methuen paperback

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-152) and index.

Summary:

This book sets out to protect the present and the future life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. Robert Hewison sets today's (1987) obsession with yesterday in the context of a climate of social and political decline.

ISBN:

0413161102 (pbk.)
9780413161109 (pbk.)

Subject:

Historic sites Conservation and restoration Great Britain.
Historical museums Great Britain.
Heritage tourism Great Britain.
Great Britain Civilization 20th century.
Lieux historiques Conservation et restauration Grande-Bretagne.
Histoire Musées Grande-Bretagne.
Tourisme culturel Grande-Bretagne.
Heritage tourism.
Historic sites Conservation and restoration.
Historical museums.
Historiography.
Social conditions
Kulturverfall
Niedergang
Zivilisation
Cultuurgoed.
Het Verleden.
Sociale aspecten.
Great Britain Social conditions 1945-
Great Britain Historiography.
Grande-Bretagne Conditions sociales 1945-
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Great Britain Social history Attitudes of cultural institutions

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Call No.: ID:88-B2690
Status: Available

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