Historic Preservation: Collective Memory and Historic Identity

by Diane Barthel

Book Overview

Historic preservation is a cultural movement gaining momentum and adherents throughout Europe and the United States. How do we decide what to preserve and how to preserve? Who benefits from the efforts of preservationists, curators, developers, and other "symbolic bankers" to safeguard an increasing variety of structures for future generations? Diane Barthel raises these and other questions in this important new book. Taking a comparative approach,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813522935
• ISBN13: 9780813522937
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"