Rethinking Heritage

Robert Shannan Peckham has been Research Fellow, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge and Fellow, St Peter's College, Oxford.

Introduction: The Politics of Heritage and Public Culture
Robert Shannan Peckham

Part 1: Heritage and the Politics of Difference
1 Representing Empire at the National Maritime Museum
James Duncan
2 The Crusader Heritage: Portugal and Islam from Colonial to Post-colonial Identities
Abdool Karim Vakil
3 The Translation of Heritage: Multiculturalism in the ‘New’Europe
Stephanos Stephanides

Part II: Heritage and European Identities
4 A European Cultural Heritage? Reflections on a Concept and a Programme
Peter Bugge
5 European Identity and the Heritage of National Cultures
Thomas Risse
6 The Chansonde Roland andt he Invention of France
Simon Gaunt
7 Contested Heritage and Identity Politics: The Industrial Museum of Schleswig
Thorkild Kjærgaard

Part III: Placing Heritage
1 Heritage and History: A Venetian Geography Lesson
Denis Cosgrove
2 The Heritage of the Bismarck National Monument in the Weave of Historicity
Karen Lang
3 ‘Teutonic’ Landscape Heritage: The Search for National Identity in Early-twentieth-century German Landscape Design
Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
4 A Garden of Returns: Bernard Lassus and the Historical Composition of Place
Stephen Bann

Part IV: The Disinheritance of Heritage
5 The Museum of What You Shall Have Been
Donald Preziosi
6 Heritage and Inheritors: The Literary Canon in Totalitarian Bulgaria
Alexander Kiossev
7 Disinheritance Politics: Spatializing Abject Histories of World War IIS weden
Michael Landzelius
8 Mourning Heritage: Memory, Trauma and Restitution
Robert Shannan Peckham