This collection of essays explores wonder in the context of early modern travel and travel writing, offering multifaceted and novel interpretations of the problematic relationship between a traveller and their unfamiliar environment through various...Lasīt vairāk
The new edition of Travel Writing is an accessible and interdisciplinary guide to this prolific and popular literary genre. Carl Thompson offers a clear and concise overview of the long history of travel writing from the ancient world to the present...Lasīt vairāk
The Routledge Handbook of Ocean Space provides a first port of call for scholars engaging in the oceanic turn in the social sciences, offering a comprehensive summary of existing trends in making sense of our water worlds, alongside new, agenda-sett...Lasīt vairāk
It traces the evolution of travel writing studies over the last two decades and points to innovative ways to study this heterogenous genre. The book revisits the complicated relationship between fact and fiction, science and literature, and the worl...Lasīt vairāk
This volume seeks to discuss the influence of new modes of transportation and their coexistence with older ones by incorporating a comprehensive range of sources written by both European and Asian travellers. It is inspired by the anthropology of th...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1939, Language Hunting in the Karakoram describes the journey taken by the author to the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan, Kashmir, and Karakoram, and details the authors experiences when she resided in Hunza with her husband, Lieutena...Lasīt vairāk
The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that are involved in collecting moments of collective trauma....Lasīt vairāk
Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to expand futures thinking in communities, including developing capabilities to envision and enact more prosperous, equitable and susta...Lasīt vairāk
Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskins engagement with his contemporaries and followers into the present, this collection is organized around three related themes. This book studies the dissemination of Ruskins intellectual...Lasīt vairāk
Firmly grounded in archival research, Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain transforms our knowledge regarding the presence of sculpture in the country during the period, which until now has been erroneously characterized as close to non-exist...Lasīt vairāk
This volume explores the changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date. It is argued that anatomical and pathological collections are medically relevant for future research, and are important in the history of medici...Lasīt vairāk
Conservation of 20th Century Furniture provides a comprehensive coverage of materials and techniques that are encountered in twentieth-century furniture, through both a contextual point of view and a range of practice perspectives....Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an analysis of the socio-historical conditions of the rise of post-war Italian photography , considers its practices and traces its destiny....Lasīt vairāk
Analysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum display. Drawing on global examples, it reviews different theoretical frameworks & methods, charting major contributions to the field & explorin...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1947, Over the Hills and Far Away takes the reader back to the holidays of olden times and then in the footsteps of the first holiday-makers on the European Continent in the 17th century....Lasīt vairāk
This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity across China for five major religions: Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to...Lasīt vairāk
Now in its fifth edition, The Historians Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history....Lasīt vairāk
This book focuses on the development of the National Museum of Natural Historys David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, exploring the origins of the exhibit, its changes over time, and the associated educational and public outreach activities of member...Lasīt vairāk
Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry explores what happens to the heritage and memory of communities that find themselves in contact with the rest of the world when they become UNESCO World Heritage Sites....Lasīt vairāk
This handbook is a foundational reference point for critical heritage research about Africa and its diaspora. Making a crucial contribution to our understanding of African conceptions and practices of heritage, this book is important to scholars of...Lasīt vairāk
