Representing the Nation: A Reader : Histories, Heritage, Museums

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Discover how museums shape a nation's identity.

Representing the Nation: A Reader provides a comprehensive overview of the role museums and cultural institutions play in constructing national identity. The book offers critical insights into the strategies and difficulties involved in preserving past heritage while balancing the competing demands of public funding bodies, tourists, and local communities. It is a must-read for anyone interested in museum studies and cultural history and is an ideal course reader for students studying media and cultural studies.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Representing the Nation: A Reader : Histories, Heritage, Museums

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ISBN: 9780415208703
Authors: David Boswell
Publisher: Routledge
Date of Publication: 1999-04-22
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 3.5
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Gathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Representing the A reader explores the role cultural institutions play in creating and shaping our sense of ourselves as a nation. With an international perspective focusing on the USA, France, Australia, the UK and India, leading figures and authors, including Tony Bennet, Ralph Samuel and Carol Duncan examine the way the past is preserved, represented and consumed as our ‘heritage’. Written in three sections, the book For the disciplines of both museum studies and cultural studies this will be vital reading material, and is also perfect as a course reader for a new MA in media and cultural studies.
 

Discover how museums shape a nation's identity.

Representing the Nation: A Reader provides a comprehensive overview of the role museums and cultural institutions play in constructing national identity. The book offers critical insights into the strategies and difficulties involved in preserving past heritage while balancing the competing demands of public funding bodies, tourists, and local communities. It is a must-read for anyone interested in museum studies and cultural history and is an ideal course reader for students studying media and cultural studies.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.