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Heritage Transformed
Author(s): Ian Baxter (Author)
- Publisher: Oxbow Books
- Publication Date: 30 Nov. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 1842174576
- ISBN-13: 9781842174579
Book Description
How does “heritage” become objectified within public institutions and representative of a national past? This book proposes a model for this process and contains five case studies that explore variety in the transformation of heritage. The model proposes that heritage is transformed from concept to object and the agency of change is “management”. It explores management using strategic management analysis to understand the relationship between public institutions, heritage objects and their use. The analysis shows a development from administration to strategic management as a way of effecting change in public institutions over time, producing new heritage objects and markets for them, and demonstrates the need for public institutions to be aware of the way in which the adoption of management strategies creates “new” heritage as a cultural resource.
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From the Publisher
Ian Baxter is an avid collector of World War II photographs and has written a number of books. He lives near Chelmsford, Essex.
About the Author
Ian Baxter is a military historian who specialises in German twentieth century military history. He has written more than twenty books including Into the Abyss: The Last Years of the Waffen-SS, From Retreat to Defeat: The Last Years of the German Army on the Eastern Front, Operation Bagration – the Destruction of Army Group Centre 1944, Poland – The Eighteen Day Victory March, Panzers In North Africa, The Red Army At Stalingrad, and German Guns of the Third Reich, as well as contributing over 100 articles to a range of well-known military periodicals. He currently lives in Essex with Michelle and son Felix.
