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Inherited Empire in East European Architectural Conservation

Appropriating Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian/Soviet Past

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Rather than a mere technical matter, the restoration of built monuments is a process through which societies promote their vision of history and cultural identity. The reasons why many monuments survive to this day are to be found in the nineteenth century, when modern practices of heritage preservation began. This book addresses the emergence and practices of architectural conservation in the case of the heterogeneous, disputed, fragmented and controversial heritage of Eastern and Central Europe from ca. 1800 to 1990. Thirteen chapters, an introduction and an afterword, follow the transformation and preservation of monuments, many of which are little known internationally, and their present legacy, from Georgia to Estonia, from Dalmatia and Galicia to the Russian Far North. With a focus on regions within and around the former Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian and Soviet empires, the volume contributes to decolonising this field of historical research by investigating the imperial and post-imperial architectural legacies, including how they enforced social, racial or ethnic inequalities.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-07-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieMemory, Heritage and Public History in Central and Eastern Europe - CEU Press
Antal sidor292
FörlagPallas Publications
ISBN9789048575886

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Cosmin Minea, PhD, is a Czech Science Foundation researcher at the Art History Department of Masaryk University, Brno. His project analyses the promotion and restoration of architectural monuments in Romania, Serbia and Bulgaria (1860–1930). He is also co-chair of the Environmental Humanities working group at New Europe College, Bucharest.Kristina Jõekalda is Associate Professor at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn. Formerly Postdoctoral Associate at Yale University, and Visiting Fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Introduction: Conserving Local, National and Imperial Monuments in Eastern Europe and Beyond 1. Hagia Sophia as “Cosmopolitan Heritage” in the Nineteenth Century 2. Preservation of Architectural Monuments in Romania in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: Continuities and Challenges 3. Public Heritage and the Protection of Historic Monuments in Romania’s Changing Political Context, 1919–1948 4. The Italian Approach in the Dalmatian Context: Vicko Andrić and the Restoration Projects for Split 5. The Episcopium Question: Imperialism and Irredentism in the Custodianship of Diocletian’s Palace, 1850–1924 6. Monument Preservation and Ruin Romanticism in Late Habsburg Lviv: The Case of the Gunpowder Tower 7. Paweł Popiel as the Conservator of Galicia: Nationalism within a Multinational Empire 8. Reconstructions, Deconstructions, (Over)Interpretations: The Case of the Royal Castle at the Wawel in Kraków, 1908–1945 9. The Lost Art of Neo-Classicism in Oradea: Reshaping Early Nineteenth-Century Hungarian Cityscapes Before and After the First World War 10. “Prologue to the Modern Era:” The Interwar Restoration and Post-war International Promotion of the Royal Palace of Esztergom 11. Russian Imperialism and the Restoration of the Manglisi Cathedral in Georgia, 1851–1862 12. Monument Protection on the Gulag Archipelago: The Fate of the Solovetsky Architectural Monuments, 1917–1945 13. Soviet Reassessment of Nineteenth-Century Romanticism: A History of the Reception of Architectural Conservation in Estonia Concluding Thoughts: Modernity and Ambivalence in the Construction of Heritage