A Place in History: Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town

by Michael Herzfeld

Book Overview

Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he examines major questions confronting conservators and citizens as they negotiate the "ownership" of history: Who defines the past? To whom does the past...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691028559
• ISBN13: 9780691028552
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"