The Heritage Industry: Britain in a Climate of Decline

by Robert Hewison

Overview

First published in 1987, The Heritage Industry sets out to protect the present and the future of life in Britain from their most dangerous enemy: a creeping takeover by the past. The author sets today’s obsession with yesterday in the context of a climate of social and political decline. The economic uncertainties and cultural convulsions of post-war life have made the past seem a pleasanter and safer place. But how true is that image of the past, and whose past is it, anyway? Hewison questions the way institutions like the National Trust are helping to create a past that never was. While the real economy crumbles, a new force is taking over: the Heritage Industry, a movement dedicated to turning the British Isles into one vast open-air museum. This book will be of interest to students of history, art and cultural studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032482248
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/03/2023
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Pages:	163
Product dimensions:	7.44(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Robert Hewison

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Living in a Museum 2. The Climate of Decline 3. Brideshead Re-Revisited 4. The Heritage Industry 5. The Politics of Patronage 6. A Future for the Past Notes Index