Papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, England, in March, 2009. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part V: The New World. Dying Americans : race, extinction, and conservation in the New World / Sadiah Qureshi. Part II: The classical world. Of doubtful antiquity : fighting for the past in the Crimean War / Edmund Richardson -- Officers and gentlemen? : Roman Britain and the British Empire / Mary Beard -- Unity out of diversity? : the making of a modern Christian monument in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / Robin Cormack -- Part III: The biblical world. Unholy water : archaeology, the Bible, and the first Aswan Dam / David Gange -- The Cotswolds in Jerusalem : restoration and empire / Simon Goldhill -- Part IV: Empires and civilizations. Appropriation to supremacy : ideas of the 'native' in the rise of British Imperial Heritage / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Monument preservation and the vexing question of religious structures in Colonial India / Indra Sengupta -- Representing Ancient Egypt at imperial high noon (1882-1922) : Egyptological careers and artistic allegories of civilization / Donald Malcolm Reid -- Part V: The New World. Publication as preservation at a remote Maya site in the early twentieth century / Donna Yates -- Plunder or preservation? : negotiating an Anglo-American heritage in the later nineteenth century in the Old World and the New : Shakespeare's birthplace, Niagara Falls, and Carlyle's house / Melanie Hall -- Dying Americans : race, extinction, and conservation in the New World / Sadiah Qureshi.
Series:
Proceedings of the British Academy, 0068-1202 ; 187
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