The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History

A paperback edition of a critically-acclaimed 1998 study of the meaning and effects of 'Heritage'.

David Lowenthal (Author)

9780521635622, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 13 May 1998

358 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.57 kg

'Brave, piquant and impressively broad-ranging.' Linda Colley, The Times Literary Supplement

Heritage has burgeoned over the past quarter of a century from a small élite preoccupation into a major popular crusade. Everything from Disneyland to the Holocaust Museum, from the Balkan wars to the Northern Irish troubles, from Elvis memorabilia to the Elgin Marbles bears the marks of the cult of heritage. In this acclaimed 1998 book David Lowenthal explains the rise of this obsession with the past and examines its power for both good and evil.

Introduction
1. Heritage ascendant
2. Personal legacies
3. Collective legacies
4. Heritage assailed
5. The purpose and practice of history
6. The purpose of heritage
7. The practice of heritage
8. Being first
9. Being innate
10. Rivalry and restitution.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]