Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Memory and History

   Understanding Memory as Source and Subject

   Edited by Joan Tumblety

   Series: Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources

   How does the historian approach memory and how do historians use different sources to analyze how history and memory interact and impact on each other? Memory and History explores the different aspects of the study of this field. Taking examples from Europe, Australia, the USA and Japan and...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Archaeology in Environment and Technology

   Intersections and Transformations

   Edited by David Frankel, Susan Lawrence, Jennifer Webb

   Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

   Environments, landscapes, and ecological systems are often seen as fundamental by archaeologists, but how they relate to society is understood in very different ways. The chapters in this book take environment, culture, and technology together. All have been the focus of much attention; often one...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
4. The Public History Reader

   Edited by Hilda Kean, Paul Martin

   Series: Routledge Readers in History

   Drawing on theory and practice from five continents, The Public History Reader offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history as it places people, such as practitioners, bloggers, archivists, local historians, curators or those working in education, at the heart of...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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