National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010: Mobilization and legitimacy, continuity and change

Synopsis

Europe’s national museums have since their creation been at the centre of on-going nation making processes. National museums negotiate conflicts and contradictions and entrain the community sufficiently to obtain the support of scientists and art connoisseurs, citizens and taxpayers, policy makers, domestic and foreign visitors alike. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 assess the national museum as a manifestation of cultural and political desires, rather than that a straightforward representation of the historical facts of a nation. National Museums and Nation-building in Europe 1750-2010 examines the degree to which national museums have created models and representations of nations, their past, present and future, and proceeds to assess the consequences of such attempts. Revealing how different types of nations and states – former empires, monarchies, republics, pre-modern, modern or post-imperial entities – deploy and prioritise different types of museums (based on art, archaeology, culture and ethnography) in their making, this book constitutes the first comprehensive and comparative perspective on national museums in Europe and their intricate relationship to the making of nations and states.

Copyright:

2015

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Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781317569145

Related ISBNs:

9781315737133, 9780415853965, 9780415853965, 9780815346746, 9780815346746

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

02/14/20

Copyrighted By:

Peter Aronsson and Gabriella Elgenius

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Peter Aronsson

Edited by:

Gabriella Elgenius