Heritage

Description

This textbook is directed at students approaching heritage as a combined field of study for the first time. The fields of heritage under review range from the nature trail to the cathedral, the family album to the national park.

Author description

Peter Howard is a geographer who has come into heritage from the study of landscape. He was editor of Landscape Research and is the founder and editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies. He has introduced courses in Heritage at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Plymouth in Exeter, with a distinctively European flavour. He published European Heritage Planning and Management, with Gregory Ashworth, in 1999. He is married with three children and lives in a Devon village.

Table of contents

Chapter One What is Heritage? Chapter Two Heritage as a Discipline Chapter Three Heritage for People: history and theory Chapter Four Fields of Heritage Chapter Five Selling Heritage Chapter Six Heritage as Identity Chapter Seven Heritage as Process Chapter Eight Values and Issues Chapter Nine Interpretation in Practice