Product Description: The development of key methodologies for the study of battlefields in the USA in the 1980s inspired a generation of British and European archaeologists to turn their attention to sites in their own countries. The end of the Cold War and key anniversaries of the World Wars inspired others, especially in the UK, to examine the material legacy of those conflicts before they disappeared...read more

Product Description: The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology seeks to reappraise the place of archaeology in the contemporary world by providing a series of essays that critically engage with both old and current debates in the field of public archaeology...read more

Product Description: This manual provides a unique ‘user guide’ to practicing archaeology and working in the cultural heritage sector within the diverse settings of Great Britain, comprising of: England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands...read more

Product Description: This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the world, including the UK and USA...read more

Product Description: Papers presented at a conference on World Heritage management held at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, England in May 2006. hosted by the Ironbridge Institute. Contents: 1) Monitoring and Evaluation in the World Heritage Convention (Christopher Young); 2) The Management Plan for the extended World Heritage Site of Budapest (Erzsebet Kovacs); 3) World Heritage Site Branding - The Blaenavon Experience (John Rodger); 4) Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site (David J Breeze); 5) Issues and Challenges of World Heritage Sites in Nepal (Brijesh Thapa); 6) Managing the Cultural Heritage of a Natural Heritage Site: A Case Study of the Skocjan Caves, Slovenia (Katie Lamberto); 7) Constructing World Heritage: Strategies for exploring perceptions and practices (Angela McClanahan); 8) From the aemonumentalAe to the aelivingAe heritage: a shift in perspective (Chiara Bortolotto); 9) From basket-case to hanging-baskets: regeneration, alienation and heritage in Ironbridge (Roger White and Harriet Devlin); 10) Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site Revisited: Some Reflections on the Scientific Documentation, Conservation and Management of Patan Durbar Square, Nepal (Jason Wood); 11) The next big challenge - what are the global implications of climate change for cultural heritage? (Rob Woodside); 12) Protecting Cultural, Natural, and Intangible Heritage Values as a Poverty-Reduction Strategy (Anastasia Telesetsky); 13) What does sustainability have to do with it? Reflections upon heritage language and the heritage of slavery and missionaries (Marie Louise Stig Sensen); 14) Global and Local Factors Influencing Congestion at MacaoAes Most Popular World Heritage Tourist Attractions (Hilary Du Cros and Kong Weng Hang); 15) The Management of Two World Heritage Sites: Xidi and Hongcun in Anhui, China (Tracey L-D Lu); 16) Bridging the Atlantic - Archaeology and Community in England and Bermuda (Paul Belford); 17) The death of a community archaeology project? Ensuring aeconsultationAe in a non-mandated bureaucratic environment (Carol McDavid); 18) Avebury, the village in the stones: international designation and local frustration; 19) Zones of Negotiation: The Auckland MuseumAes Relationships with Pacific Islands Communities (Jennie Morgan); 20) Fossil Collecting at the Joggins Fossil Cliff Protected Site: A New Approach (Robert R...read more

Product Description: Battles, as events, are a major focus of military history in all periods, and battlefield sites are increasingly being taken up as part of the nation's cultural heritage. "Bloody Meadows" goes behind the particular discoveries revealed by site excavation and any information that the landscape may reveal about the sequence of events in battle...read more

Product Description: If ‘all property is theft’, then Cultural Property is nothing less than the theft of culture. The term ‘cultural property’ is widespread in the field of heritage management and is a particularly powerful concept in legal approaches, but its validity is never challenged...read more

Product Description: This ambitious and innovative book sets out to establish a new understanding of human aggression and conflict in the distant past. The authors examine the evidence of warfare in prehistoric times and in the early historical period in order to throw fresh light on the motives and methods of the combatants...read more

Product Description: This work is intended as an approachable introduction aimed at students of archaeology, history or museum and heritage studies. Unlike most textbooks on heritage which discuss the creation of heritage as a cultural phenomenon or offer practical guides to heritage practices, it attempts to take a fresh approach by providing an introduction to themes in the field of heritage as it relates to the material legacy of our past...read more

Product Description: Using England as a case study, this book examines why the law has become the dominant means of preserving archaeological heritage, and how the process works. It explores the relationship between the law and archaeology, providing a basis for international comparison of systems of preservation law...read more

Product Description: Effective management is becoming increasingly important in all aspects of archaeology. Archaeologists must manage the artefacts thay deal with, their funding, ancient sites, as well as the practice of archaeology itself. Managing Archaeology is a collecton of outstanding papers from experts involved in these many areas...read more

Product Description: This bibliography is the culmination of four years' work by a team of noted scholars; its annotated entries are organized by religious tradition and cover each tradition's central concepts, offering a judicious selection of primary and secondary works as well as recommendations of cross-cultural topics to be explored...read more