The conservation movement : a history of architectural preservation : antiquity to modernity / Miles Glendinning.

Glendinning, Miles, 1956-
London New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
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Notes:

  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 494-509) and index.
  • Introduction : the conservation movement : stepchild of progress. — Pre-1789 : foundations of the movement : care for old buildings in the pre-modern age (Harbingers of heritage : Antiquity, Christendom, Renaissance. — Antiquarian antecedents : 17th and 18th centuries). — 1789-1914 : growth of the movement : first modern ideologies of conservation (International revolutions and national heritages, 1789-1850. — The life-force of age : restoration and anti-scrape, 1850-1890. — Militant monuments : nationalist conservation rivalries, 1890-1914). — 1914-1945 : crisis of the movement : mass heritage, mass destruction (Monument wars : devastation and rebuilding, 1914-39. — Total war and cultural bombing, 1939-45). — 1945-1989 : heyday of the movement : parallel narratives of post-war preservation (Parallel lives : new and old in the west, 1945-1968. — From counter-culture to control : western triumphs of conservation, 1968-89. — Heritage complexities in the socialist bloc, 1945-1989. — Charters and conventions : the internationalisation of heritage, 1945-1989. — Post-1989 : the contemporary story (Heritage in the age of globalisation, post-1989). — Epilogue.

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