Global Heritage and Memory Studies in the Present
About the Book Series
Global Heritage and Memory Studies in the Present is a ground-breaking book series that examines the dynamics of heritage and memory from transnational, interdisciplinary, and integrated approaches. Monographs and edited volumes critically interrogate the politics of heritage and dynamics of memory, as well as the theoretical implications of landscapes and mass violence, nationalism and ethnicity, heritage preservation and conservation, archaeology, material culture and (dark) tourism, diaspora and colonial memory, the power of aesthetics and the art of absence and forgetting, mourning and performative re-enacments in the present.
Historical Distance and the Holocaust: Interactions Between Historians and Middle-Class Western Europeans in Memory Education
1st Edition
By Thomas Van de Putte
July 31, 2026
What happens when Holocaust historians leave their academic bubble and start interacting with laypeople? This book investigates practices and discourses of historical distance and their effects on vernacular understandings of the Holocaust among white, middle-class Europeans. In five chapters, ...
Palestine in Transition: Frank Scholten’s Visual Archive of the British Mandate Period
1st Edition
Edited
By Karène Sanchez Summerer, Sary Zananiri
June 30, 2026
Frank Scholten set out to produce an illustrated Bible, instead returning with captivating documentation of the modernist transformations and intimate views of Palestine from 1921-1923. He documented Palestine as the British Mandate was formally being established, with a taxonomical and ...
Commemorating Defeat: Viral Monuments and the International Cult of the Lost Cause, 1864–1914
1st Edition
By Nicholas Parkinson
May 29, 2026
This book provides a ground-breaking study of monuments to defeat. Focusing on one sculpture—Gloria Victis, or Glory to the Defeated, by French artist Antonin Mercié—the author examines the artwork’s profound influence on commemorative practices at the turn of the twentieth century. Using case ...
Klaverjas and the Hidden Sporting Heritage of South Africa: Card Games, Community, and Black History
1st Edition
By Hendrik Snyders, Leonard Jacobs
May 29, 2026
As a collective, klaverjas players form a distinct community of practice with a unique organisational discourse, language, and set of socialisation practices. Given its prevalence within South Africa’s Black communities, klawerjas, as it is locally known, is perceived as both the traditional game ...
Rethinking the Greek Campaign to Repatriate the Parthenon Marbles: Problems and Complexities with Contested Cultural Heritage
1st Edition
By James Beresford
May 29, 2026
Offering an incisive examination into aspects of the controversy regarding ownership of the marble sculptures infamously removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the early nineteenth century, this volume challenges long-held scholarly assumptions frequently made in support of the return of the ...