Issues Books

New and Published Books

1. Museums and the Paradox of Change

   3rd Edition

   By Robert R. Janes

   Museums throughout the world are under increasing pressure in the wake of the 2008/2009 economic recession and the many pressing social and environmental issues that are assuming priority. The major focus of concern in the global museum community is the sustainability of museums in light of these...

   Published April 17th 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 April 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. 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 April 1st 2013 by Routledge
4. Museum Architecture

   A New Biography

   By Suzanne MacLeod

   Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent publication of multiple texts dedicated to the subject. Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
5. 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
6. 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
7. The Conservation Movement: A History of Architectural Preservation

   Antiquity to Modernity

   By Miles Glendinning

   In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable...

   Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Corporate Responsibility for Cultural Heritage

   Conservation, Sustainable Development, and Corporate Reputation

   By Fiona Starr

   Series: Routledge Studies in Heritage

   This book examines the relationship between two divergent fields – corporate activity and heritage conservation – linking the financing of conservation and its benefits with the corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals of the private sector. Through discussion of physical conservation, benefits...

   Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. 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
10. Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Carla Pascoe

    Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

    Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the...

    Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge