Every Monument Will Fall

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Every Monument Will Fall

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Author : Dan Hicks
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2025-05-01

Every Monument Will Fall written by Dan Hicks and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-01 with History categories.

‘An extraordinary intervention. If you want to understand the stakes and the limitations of contemporary conflict over culture and colonial history this bold, provocative book is an indispensable resource’ Paul Gilroy, founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at UCL ‘Hicks’ must-read book describes how it was possible for a human skull to be made into a drinking cup and used in a genteel Oxford college, well into the 21st century, as if empire were an eternal state of nature . . . Read it to learn new ways to be anti-racist, abolitionist and to tell other stories than those commemorated by the monuments that surround us, from statues, to museums and the police’ Nicholas Mirzoeff, author of White Sight ‘Brave and clear-sighted. Hicks opens up an extraordinary conversation between the past and the present. This is a book about falling statues, but so much more. It’s about how we’ve been lied to, and how we can approach the past with honesty. Hicks asks whether history and archaeology should be used to justify actions we know impinge on the rights of others - or to understand ourselves better’ Alice Roberts, bestselling author of Crypt ‘Dan Hicks writes with grace and fierce focus about what we choose to remember and why, in our patterns of thought, our institutions and the built environment in which we live’ Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities — and one that has a deeper history than you might think. Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, heritage, memory, and colonialism, Every Monument Will Fall joins the dots between the building of statues, the founding of academic disciplines like archaeology and anthropology, and the warehousing of stolen art and human skulls in museums — including the one in which he is a curator. Part history, part biography, part excavation, the story runs from the Yorkshire wolds to the Crimean War, from southern Ireland to the frontline of the American Civil War, from the City of London to the University of Oxford — revealing enduring legacies of militarism, slavery, racism and white supremacy hardwired into the heart of our cultural institutions. Every Monument Will Fall offers an urgent reappraisal of how we think about culture, and how to find hope, remembrance and reconciliation in the fragments of an unfinished violent past. Refusing to choose between pulling down every statue, or living in a past that we can never change, the book makes the case for allowing monuments to fall once in a while, even those that are hard to see as monuments, rebuilding a memory culture that is in step with our times.

Shadow Archaeologies

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Author : Assaf Nativ
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2025-07-31

Shadow Archaeologies written by Assaf Nativ and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-31 with Social Science categories.

Shadow Archaeologies explores the modes of knowledge production which operate where the light of mainstream, historically oriented archaeology does not reach. It exposes the field’s underbelly and dwells on issues that standard practice ignores or glosses over, questioning what archaeology and the archaeological are or could be. The volume brings together scholars working at the discipline’s theoretical cutting edge to challenge mainstream archaeology in various ways. They engage with the political dimensions of the discipline’s mode of production, develop alternate practices, and conceive of other manifestations of the archaeological object, thus illuminating various ways in which the concept of shadow archaeology can be articulated. After an introduction by the editors, the volume is organised into three parts, which address from different angles the politics, practices, and objects of an archaeology that resides in the shadow of antiquity. While the book will appeal to any archaeologist with an interest in theory, it is also a challenge to all archaeologists to reflect on their discipline and their own working practices and an invitation to join in the discussion about what archaeology might become.

Erection Of A Monument In France To Commemorate The Valiant Services Of The Ninety Third Division Of The American Expeditionary Forces

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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1926

Erection Of A Monument In France To Commemorate The Valiant Services Of The Ninety Third Division Of The American Expeditionary Forces written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1926 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.

The New American Encyclopaedia

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1863

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The New American Cyclopaedia

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Author : George Ripley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862

The New American Cyclopaedia written by George Ripley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1862 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.

The New American Cyclop Dia Ed By G Ripley And C A Dana

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Author : American cyclopaedia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1862

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The New American Cyclop Dia

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Author : George Ripley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869

The New American Cyclop Dia written by George Ripley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.

The London And Paris Observer

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1834

The London And Paris Observer written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1834 with categories.

Monument Wars

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Author : Kirk Savage
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2011-07-11

Monument Wars written by Kirk Savage and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-11 with Architecture categories.

Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.

The Brutish Museums

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Author : Dan Hicks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020

The Brutish Museums written by Dan Hicks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with BUSINESS & ECONOMICS categories.

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.