This volume focuses on the uses of collective memory in transatlantic relations between the United States, and western and central European nations in the period from the Cold War to the present day....More info...
The aim of this book is to explore the significance of the concept of monument in the context of the Achaemenid Empire (550-330 BC), with particular reference to the royal Ensemble of Persepolis, founded by Darius I and built together with his son X...More info...
Historic sites celebrate defining moments in history, memorialize important events and people, and contribute to the character of the locations where they are situated...More info...
Summarizes the principles of corrective maintenance and energy retrofitting of historic and listed buildings, from diagnosis to intervention: asset preservation, user comfort, and energy efficiency....More info...
(Pub. Date: 12-Feb-2009, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199215980)
The first comprehensive survey of English medieval church monuments for nearly a century, English Church Monuments examines all types of monument-cross slabs, brasses, incised slabs, sculpted effigies-analysing them in an historical context to show...More info...
Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material...More info...
The main authors of this study were initially interested in writing the text because they believed that historians of British reform movements had devoted insufficient attention to monuments. They regarded this as a weakness in the writing of modern...More info...
From the Pyramids at Giza to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the seven wonders of the ancient world have posed one of the greatest riddles over the centuries. This text probes into many related questions....More info...
The Acropolis in Athens has captured the imaginations of readers, writers and travellers for centuries and every year draws crowds from all over the world....More info...
