Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'

by William Logan

Book Overview

Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases - or, conversely, choose to forget them.

Such episodes and locations include: massacre and genocide sites, places related to prisoners of war,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415454492
• ISBN13: 9780415454490
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"