A place in history
Michael Herzfeld
A place in history : social and monumental time in a Cretan town /Michael Herzfeld - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , ©1991. - xvi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history.; Princeton modern Greek studies. .
Describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, this book examines questions confronting conservators and citizens.
9780691028552
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History
Greece--Rethymnon--History--Philosophy
949.9820 HER
A place in history : social and monumental time in a Cretan town /Michael Herzfeld - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , ©1991. - xvi, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. - Princeton studies in culture/power/history.; Princeton modern Greek studies. .
Describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, this book examines questions confronting conservators and citizens.
9780691028552
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002
History
Greece--Rethymnon--History--Philosophy
949.9820 HER
