A future in ruins : (Record no. 93361)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2018030583
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780190648343
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International Standard Book Number 9780190648350
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International Standard Book Number 9780190648367
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780190648343 (hardback)
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number 20556682
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Authentication code pcc
050 10 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number AS4.U83
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 001.06/01
Edition number 23
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Classification number SOC003000
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100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Preferred name for the person Meskell, Lynn,
Relator term author.
245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title A future in ruins :
Remainder of title UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace /
Statement of responsibility, etc Lynn Meskell.
246 30 - VARYING FORM OF TITLE
Title proper/short title UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace
264 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New York, NY :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2018.
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Extent 1 online resource.
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Content type term text
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Media type term computer
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Carrier type term online resource
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504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc " Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural understanding. Its mission was inspired by leading European intellectuals such as Henri Bergson, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, and Aldous and Julian Huxley. Often critiqued for its inherent Eurocentrism, UNESCO and its World Heritage program today remain embedded within modernist principles of "progress" and "development" and subscribe to the liberal principles of diplomacy and mutual tolerance. However, its mission to prevent conflict, destruction, and intolerance, while noble and much needed, increasingly falls short, as recent battles over the World Heritage sites of Preah Vihear, Chersonesos, Jerusalem, Palmyra, Aleppo, and Sana'a, among others, have underlined. A Future in Ruins is the story of UNESCO's efforts to save the world's heritage and, in doing so, forge an international community dedicated to peaceful co-existence and conservation. It traces how archaeology and internationalism were united in Western initiatives after the political upheavals of the First and Second World Wars. This formed the backdrop for the emergent hopes of a better world that were to captivate the "minds of men." UNESCO's leaders were also confronted with challenges and conflicts about their own mission. Would the organization aspire to intellectual pursuits that contributed to the dream of peace or instead be relegated to an advisory and technical agency? An eye-opening and long overdue account of a celebrated yet poorly understood agency, A Future in Ruins calls on us all to understand how and why the past comes to matter in the present, who shapes it, and who wins or loses as a consequence. "--
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520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "A Future in Ruins is an eye-opening look at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Focusing on early luminaries like H.G. Wells, Aldous, and Julian Huxley, with their dystopian fears for the future, through to the devastation of ancient sites like Cuzco, Abu Simbel, the Bamiyan Valley, and Palmyra, the book traces how, from 1945 to the present, cultural heritage has been a vital part of the elusive hope for a better world"--
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Source of description note Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Unesco
General subdivision History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Unesco
Form subdivision Biography.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cultural property
General subdivision Protection
-- History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Cultural property
General subdivision Destruction and pillage
-- History.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).
Source of heading or term bisacsh
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Source of heading or term bisacsh
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Biographies.
Source of term lcgft
Authority record control number https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier https://research.ebsco.com/linkprocessor/plink?id=7b7cf10a-de1c-3c4f-9227-636ed3b44296
Link text Full text available at EBSCOhost Click here to view
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Item type EBOOK
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