Monumental Lies: Culture Wars and the Truth about the Past

by Robert Bevan

Book Overview

How statues, heritage and the built environment have become the battleground for the culture wars

The past is weaponised in culture wars and cynically edited by those who wish to impose their ideology upon the physical spaces around us. Holocaust deniers use details of the ruins of the gas chambers Auschwitz to promote their lies: 'No Holes; No Holocaust'.

Yet long-standing concepts such as 'authenticity'in heritage are undermined...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1839761873
• ISBN13: 9781839761874
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"