Enterprise and Heritage : Crosscurrents of National Culture
Arts Cultural property - Protection - Economic aspects - Great Britain Cultural property Great Britain - Cultural policy - History - 20th century Heritage tourism Historic sites - Conservation and restoration - Economic aspects - Great Britain Historic sites History Tourism sähkökirjat
Taylor and Francis
1991
EISBN 9780203991947
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Great Britain Limited; Tradition and translation: national culture in its global context; Mediating tradition and modernity: the heritage/ enterprise couplet; Where horses shit a hundred sparrows feed: Docklands and East London during the Thatcher years; Enterprise and heritage in the dock; The old and new worlds of information technology in Britain; The age of leisure; 'Up Where You Belong': Hollywood images of big business in the 1980s; Commerce and culture; Over our shoulders: nostalgic screen fictions for the 1980s
Echoes of empire: towards a politics of representationRe-imagining the city
The phenomena of `enterprise' and `heritage' might at first thought seem unrelated: this book sets out to show that the two concepts are not only related but deeply interdependent. If `enterprise' can be used to define the official encouragement of the values of the market society, then the growth of the heritage industry can be seen as a manifestation of the entrepreneurial spirit - marketing the past so that it is accessible to the man or woman in the street. Using case studies, commentary and critique, the contributors to this lively volume discuss the importance of `enterprise' and `h.
Echoes of empire: towards a politics of representationRe-imagining the city
The phenomena of `enterprise' and `heritage' might at first thought seem unrelated: this book sets out to show that the two concepts are not only related but deeply interdependent. If `enterprise' can be used to define the official encouragement of the values of the market society, then the growth of the heritage industry can be seen as a manifestation of the entrepreneurial spirit - marketing the past so that it is accessible to the man or woman in the street. Using case studies, commentary and critique, the contributors to this lively volume discuss the importance of `enterprise' and `h.
