Papers presented at a conference held in Cambridge, England, in March, 2009.
Part I: Introduction. The heritage of empire / Astrid Swenson
Part II: The classical world. Of doubtful antiquity : fighting for the past in the Crimean War / Edmund Richardson
Officers and gentlemen? : Roman Britain and the British Empire / Mary Beard
Unity out of diversity? : the making of a modern Christian monument in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan / Robin Cormack
Part III: The biblical world. Unholy water : archaeology, the Bible, and the first Aswan Dam / David Gange
The Cotswolds in Jerusalem : restoration and empire / Simon Goldhill
Part IV: Empires and civilizations. Appropriation to supremacy : ideas of the 'native' in the rise of British Imperial Heritage / Sujit Sivasundaram
Monument preservation and the vexing question of religious structures in Colonial India / Indra Sengupta
Representing Ancient Egypt at imperial high noon (1882-1922) : Egyptological careers and artistic allegories of civilization / Donald Malcolm Reid
Part V: The New World. Publication as preservation at a remote Maya site in the early twentieth century / Donna Yates
Plunder or preservation? : negotiating an Anglo-American heritage in the later nineteenth century in the Old World and the New : Shakespeare's birthplace, Niagara Falls, and Carlyle's house / Melanie Hall
Dying Americans : race, extinction, and conservation in the New World / Sadiah Qureshi.
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From plunder to preservation : Britain and the heritage of empire, c.1800-1940. ISBN 9780197265413. Published by Oxford University Press in 2013. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
