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Building Colonialism draws together the relationship between archaeology and history in East Africa using techniques of artefact, building, spatial and historical analyses to highlight the existence of, and accordingly the need to conserve, the urban centres of Africa's more recent past. The study does this by exploring the physical remains of European activity and the way that the construction of harbour towns directly reflects the colonial mission of European powers in the nineteenth century in Tanzania and Kenya. Based on fieldwork which recorded and analysed the buildings and monuments within these towns it compares the European creations to earlier Swahili urban design and explores the way European commercial trade systems came to dominate East Africa. Based on the kind of Urban Landscape Analyses carried out in the UK and Ireland, Building Colonialism looks at the social and spatial implications of the towns on the Indian Ocean coast which contain centres of derelict and unused buildings dating from East Africa's nineteenth-century colonial era. The book begins by concentrating upon towns in Tanzania and Kenya which were the key entry points into Africa for the nineteenth-century colonial regimes and compares these to later French and Italian colonies and discusses contemporary approaches to the conservation of colonial built heritage and the difficulties faced in ensuring valid participatory protection of the urban heritage resource

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Archaeology and history --- Historic buildings --- Urban archaeology --- Coastal archaeology --- Africa, East --- Africa, East --- Antiquities. --- History

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Monarchy is an enduring institution that still makes headlines today. It has always been preoccupied with image and perception, never more so than in the period covered by this volume. The collection of papers gathered here from international scholars demonstrates that monarchical image and perception went far beyond cultural, symbolic and courtly display-although these remain important-and were, in fact, always deeply concerned with the practical expression of authority, politics and power. This collection is unique in that it covers the subject from two innovative angles: it not only addresses both kings and queens together, but also both the medieval and early modern periods. Consequently, this allows significant comparisons to be made between male and female monarchy as well as between eras. Such an approach reveals that continuity was arguably more important than change over a span of some five centuries. In removing the traditional gender and chronological barriers that tend to lead to four separate areas of studies for kings and queens in medieval and early modern history, the papers here are free to encompass male and female royal rulers ranging across Europe from the early-thirteenth to the late-seventeenth centuries to examine the image and perception of monarchy in England, Scotland, France, Burgundy, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Collectively this volume will be of interest to all those studying medieval and early modern monarchy and for those wishing to learn about the connections and differences between the two.--Amazon.com.

Archaeology and history --- Archaeology, Medieval --- Antiquities, Medieval --- Medieval antiquities --- Medieval archaeology --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- History --- Europe --- Social life and customs. --- Monarchy --- Monarchie --- History. --- Monarchy. --- To 1500. --- Europe.

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Archeology --- History of civilization --- archaeology --- local history [discipline] --- cultural property --- cultural heritage --- Archaeology and history --- Cultural property --- Local history --- 911.53 --- Historiography, Local --- History, Local --- Local historiography --- Historiography --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- History --- Cultural landscape

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In Archaeology of Tibetan Books , Agnieszka Helman-Ważny explores the varieties of artistic expression, materials, and tools that have shaped Tibetan books over the millennia. Digging into the history of the bookmaking craft, the author approaches these ancient texts primarily through the lens of their artistry, while simultaneously showing them as physical objects embedded in pragmatic, economic, and social frameworks. She provides analyses of several significant Tibetan books—which usually carry Buddhist teachings—including a selection of manuscripts from Dunhuang from the 1st millennium C.E., examples of illuminated manuscripts from Western and Central Tibet dating from the 15th century, and fragments of printed Tibetan Kanjurs from as early as 1410. This detailed study of bookmaking sheds new light on the books' philosophical meanings.

Books --- Bookbinding --- Book design --- Printing --- Papermaking --- Manuscripts, Tibetan --- Archaeology and history --- Arts, Tibetan --- 091 =954 --- Tibetan arts --- Historical archaeology --- History and archaeology --- History --- Tibetan manuscripts --- Paper making and trade --- Paper manufacture --- Paper --- Pulping --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- Design, Book --- Graphic design (Typography) --- Binding of books --- Print finishing processes --- Library materials --- Publications --- Bibliography --- Cataloging --- International Standard Book Numbers --- 091 =954 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tibetaanse talen --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Tibetaanse talen --- History. --- Conservation and restoration --- History and criticism. --- Format --- Tibet Region --- Bod Region --- Greater Tibet --- Hsi-tang Region --- Sitsang Region --- Thibet Region --- Tibbata Region --- Wei-tsang Region --- Xi zang Region --- Xizang Region --- Antiquities. --- Bibliopegy --- Conservation and restoration&delete& --- History and criticism