A Future in Ruins UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace
A Future in Ruins UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace
- ISBN 13:
9780197503188
- ISBN 10:
0197503187
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 02/20/2020
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.