A Place in History Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town |
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| Author:
| Herzfeld, Michael |
| Series title: | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-02855-2 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1991 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $60.00 |
Book Description:
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Describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, this book examines questions confronting conservators and citizens.
Describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, this book examines questions confronting conservators and citizens.