Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism

   Edited by Melanie Smith, Greg Richards

   The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies in this field of Tourism. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience

   By Tiina Roppola

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
3. Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity

   Edited by Marion Gibson, Shelley Trower, Garry Tregidga

   Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic...

   Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
4. Marketing of Tourism Experiences

   Edited by Noel Scott, Eric Laws, Philipp Boksberger

   This book provides a review of the current theory and practice of experiential tourism and how it is marketed. Many societies today are characterised by widespread individual wealth of an order previously confined to the elite with the consequence that ownership of ‘ordinary’ physical goods is no...

   Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
5. Politics of Memory

   Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space

   Edited by Ana Lucia Araujo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent,...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Raja Serfoji II

   Science, Medicine and Enlightenment in Tanjore

   By Savithri Preetha Nair

   Series: Pathfinders

   In the early nineteenth century, the south Indian kingdom of Tanjore, which had come under the control of the East India Company, flourished as a ‘centre’ of enlightenment. This book traces the contours of the Tanjore enlightenment, which produced a knowledge that was at once modern and deeply...

   Published February 29th 2012 by Routledge India
7. Representing the Sporting Past in Museums and Halls of Fame

   Edited by Murray G. Phillips

   Series: Routledge Research in Sports History

   We live in a "museum age," and sport museums are part of this phenomenon. In this book, leading international sport history scholars examine sport museums including renowned institutions like the Olympic Museum in the Swiss city of Lausanne, the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, the...

   Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
8. Exhibiting Madness in Museums

   Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display

   Edited by Catharine Coleborne, Dolly MacKinnon

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating. Exhibiting Madness in Museums offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric objects in Australia, New Zealand, Canada...

   Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge
9. Contesting Human Remains in Museum Collections

   The Crisis of Cultural Authority

   By Tiffany Jenkins

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   Since the late 1970s human remains in museum collections have been subject to claims and controversies, such as demands for repatriation by indigenous groups who suffered under colonization. These requests have been strongly contested by scientists who research the material and consider it unique...

   Published October 20th 2010 by Routledge
10. The Making of the American Landscape

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Michael P. Conzen

    The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s...

    Published January 20th 2010 by Routledge