The Business of Heritage

The Business of Heritage
Author: Darran Jordan
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2020-06-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1527554163

Throughout the world, consultant archaeologists are at work on heritage assessments covering a broad range of fields, subjects, techniques, locations and connections. Due to government legislations to protect heritage, an industry has developed where archaeology is inextricably linked to business. The result is the production of a vast amount of material not widely seen, with the result of the heritage work often remaining unpublished. This collection of papers examines how heritage is undertaken as a business, and what this means for the ongoing protection of the past and development of archaeological knowledge. The international connections of a global business structure present an opportunity to approach heritage and archaeological studies with a global ‘one world’ view, parallel with the corporate approach practiced by an international company. This volume collects papers by archaeologists and heritage specialists from around the globe, providing insights into the intentions, processes and outcomes of an international heritage consultancy in operation. From managing heritage structures associated with space exploration at the NASA Ames Research Center, to protecting Roman archaeology in North Yorkshire, and from an industrial landscape in Cornwall to a palimpsest of Aboriginal artefacts in Australia, this book contextualises international consultancy within a broader milieu of archaeological study and documents the way in which an international business contributes to the development of academic knowledge on a world scale.

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean
Author: Finola O'Kane
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 533
Release: 2023-03-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1526150980

Ireland, slavery and the Caribbean is a complex and ground-breaking collection of essays. Grounded in history, it integrates perspectives from art historians, architectural and landscape historians, and literary scholars to produce a genuinely interdisciplinary collection that spans from 1620-1830: the high point of European colonialism. By exploring imperial, national and familial relationships from their building blocks of plantation, migration, property and trade, it finds new ways to re-create and question how slavery made the Atlantic world.

Irish Houses and Castles, 1400-1740

Irish Houses and Castles, 1400-1740
Author: Rolf Loeber
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Castles
ISBN: 9781846828201

A new volume collecting together, for the first time, the writings of the esteemed academic, Rolf Loeber. This stunning new work also includes a bibliography of the writings of Rolf Loeber on Irish history, architecture, settlement and literature, featuring over 100 maps, photographs and illustrations.00From the contents:0- Chapter One: An architectural history of Gaelic castles and settlements, 1370?1600; 0- Chapter Two: The geography and practice of English colonisation in Ireland, 1534?1609; 0- Chapter Three: Pre-plantation architecture and the early seventeenth-century building conditions for Ulster and the Midlands plantations; 0- Chapter Four: Irish houses and castles, 1660?1690; 0- Chapter Five: Early Classicism in Ireland: architecture before the Georgian era; 0- Chapter Six: The architecture of Irish country houses 1691-1740: continuity and innovation; 0- Chapter Seven: A bibliography of the writings of Rolf Loeber on Irish history, architecture, settlement and literature.

Castles of Ireland

Castles of Ireland
Author: Constance Louisa Adams
Publisher: London : Elliot Stock
Total Pages: 390
Release: 1904
Genre: Architecture, Irish
ISBN:

Architecture and Empire in Jamaica

Architecture and Empire in Jamaica
Author: Louis Nelson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2016-03-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300214359

Through Creole houses and merchant stores to sugar fields and boiling houses, Jamaica played a leading role in the formation of both the early modern Atlantic world and the British Empire. Architecture and Empire in Jamaica offers the first scholarly analysis of Jamaican architecture in the long 18th century, spanning roughly from the Port Royal earthquake of 1692 to Emancipation in 1838. In this richly illustrated study, which includes hundreds of the author’s own photographs and drawings, Louis P. Nelson examines surviving buildings and archival records to write a social history of architecture. Nelson begins with an overview of the architecture of the West African slave trade then moves to chapters framed around types of buildings and landscapes, including the Jamaican plantation landscape and fortified houses to the architecture of free blacks. He concludes with a consideration of Jamaican architecture in Britain. By connecting the architecture of the Caribbean first to West Africa and then to Britain, Nelson traces the flow of capital and makes explicit the material, economic, and political networks around the Atlantic.

A Little History of the World

A Little History of the World
Author: E. H. Gombrich
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-10-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300213972

E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since its first publication in English in 2005. The Yale edition alone has now sold over half a million copies, and the book is available worldwide in almost thirty languages. Gombrich was of course the best-known art historian of his time, and his text suggests illustrations on every page. This illustrated edition of the Little History brings together the pellucid humanity of his narrative with the images that may well have been in his mind's eye as he wrote the book. The two hundred illustrations—most of them in full color—are not simple embellishments, though they are beautiful. They emerge from the text, enrich the author's intention, and deepen the pleasure of reading this remarkable work. For this edition the text is reset in a spacious format, flowing around illustrations that range from paintings to line drawings, emblems, motifs, and symbols. The book incorporates freshly drawn maps, a revised preface, and a new index. Blending high-grade design, fine paper, and classic binding, this is both a sumptuous gift book and an enhanced edition of a timeless account of human history.