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1. Memorylands

   Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

   By Sharon Macdonald

   Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. Difficult Heritage

   Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond

   By Sharon Macdonald

   How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked...

   Published November 13th 2008 by Routledge
3. The Politics of Display

   Museums, Science, Culture

   Edited by Sharon Macdonald

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and...

   Published December 24th 1997 by Routledge