National Museums and Nation-Building in Europe 1750-2010 : Mobilization and Legitimacy, Continuity and Change.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (227 pages)
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: making museums and nations -- Part I Establishing national museums 1750-2012 -- 1 National museums in between nationalism, imperialism and regionalism, 1750-1914 -- 2 Museums of civilization, museums of state, museums of identity: national museums in Europe, 1918-2000 -- 3 Museums, nations, empires, religions -- Part II Museum typologies: art and cultural history museums -- 4 The changing roles of art museums -- 5 History museums and the making of citizens and communities -- Part III Conclusions and national museum analysis -- 6 National museums as national symbols: a survey of strategic nation-building and identity politics -- nations as symbolic regimes -- 7 National museums as cultural constitutions -- Index.