248 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
246 Pages
36 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The urge for regional identity has not declined in the process of globalization. Rather, heritage is used to develop regional distinctiveness and to charge identities with a past. Particularly helpful for this aim are creation stories, Golden Ages or recent, shared traumas. Some themes such as the Roman era or the Second World War appear easier to appropriate than, for example, prehistory.... Read more
Foreword
1. Regional Identity and Heritage
2. Early Medieval Heritage in Present-day European Regions
3. Battlefields of Competing Heritage
4. Dynamics of Memory in the Post-Industrial Era
5. Creational Stories, Golden Ages and Shared Traumas
Biography
Linde Egberts is Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands and guest researcher at Technical University Delft in the field of heritage studies. She was trained as a cultural historian and geographer. Her research interests are European and regional heritage, identity, landscape, tourism and spatial development.
