Who Owns America's Past?
The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar left the museum's parent Smithsonian Institution entirely unprepared. As the largest such complex in the world, the Smithsonian cares for millions of objects and has displayed everything from George Washington's sword to moon rocks to Dorothy's ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. Why did this particular object arouse such controversy? From an insider's perspective, Robert C. Post's Who Owns America's Past? offers insight into the politics of display and the interpretati…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4214-2258-9
- EAN: 9781421422589
- Produktnummer: 22000399
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 400 S.
- Masse: H14.8 cm x B22.4 cm x D2.5 cm 512 g
- Abbildungen: 49 Halftones, black and white
- Gewicht: 512
- Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)
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