at Google ScholarTitle data
Swenson, Astrid:
The Heritage of Empire.
In: Swenson, Astrik ; Mandler, Peter
(ed.):
From Plunder to Preservation : Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800–1940. -
Oxford
: Oxford University Press
,
2013
. - pp. 3-28
. - (Proceedings of the British Academy
; 187
)
ISBN 978-0-19-176046-4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197265413.003.0001
Abstract in another language
This chapter maps the relationships between heritage and empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and their impact on notions of world heritage. It connects the history of heritage in the metropole with that in the colonies, and relates imperial entanglements to other emerging transnational connections. It outlines commonalities and differences across the British empire and compares the British situation with developments elsewhere. Mapping shifting attitudes to ‘plunder’ and ‘preservation’, it shows how imperialism and preservationism were mutually constitutive as preservation was increasingly promoted as an instrument of good governance. However, it also shows how, across the British empire, a rhetoric of imperial preservation masked the appropriation of indigenous knowledge by the imperialists, while imperial notions of heritage were subverted and reclaimed by the colonized.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a book |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | heritage; preservation; plunder; imperialism; British empire; indigenous knowledge; world heritage; entangled history |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Lehrstuhl Europäische Geschichtskulturen > Lehrstuhl Europäische Geschichtskulturen - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Astrid Swenson |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 900 History and geography > 900 History |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Apr 2024 08:15 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Apr 2024 08:15 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/89136 |