From Plunder to Preservation
Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940
Edited by Astrid Swenson and Peter Mandler
A British Academy Publication
Author Information
Astrid Swenson is a Lecturer in European History at Brunel University London. She received her Ph.D from St. John's College Cambridge and was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge in the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group and a Fellow of Darwin College. Her book The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the past in France, Germany and Britain, 1789-1914 is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press.
Peter Mandler is Professor of Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Bailey College Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College. His book Return from the natives: How Margaret Mead won the Second World War and lost the Cold War is forthcoming with Yale University Press. From November 2012 he will be President of the Royal Historical Society.
Contributors:
Edmund Richardson/Independent scholar
Mary Beard, FBA/Dept of Classics, University of Cambridge
Robin Cormack/Courtauld Institute, London
David Gange/Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, University of Cambridge
Simon Goldhill/Dept of Classics, University of Cambridge
Sujit Sivasundaram/Department of History, London School of Economics
Indra Sengupta/German Historical Institute London
Donald Malcolm Reid/ Georgia State University & University of Washington, USA
Donna Yates/ Dept of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
Melanie Hall/History of Art, University of Boston, USA
Sadiah Qureshi/ Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, University of Cambridge