Word: legacyism
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If it weren’t for the bare bookshelves, standard-issue office furniture and a collection of tools used by some of modern art’s most famous painters, you might mistake noted conservator Carol Mancusi-Ungaro’s office on the top floor of the Fogg...
Ferguson argues that Britain’s imperial development and its subsequent legacy are more complex. By applying late 20th century values to 19th century imperialism, historians distort the growth and advancements that came under Britain’s rule.
Nevertheless, the book is filled with less-than-rosy incidents from Britain’s imperial history. Indeed, Ferguson does not gloss over the exploitation, violence and racism that lay at the empire’s heart. Instead, by offering a wider perspective, Ferguson forces a reconsideration of the empire?...
But the accusations hurled at the Coalition’s military planners are in many ways more disgusting than the rampant looting of Iraq’s cultural legacy, for they reveal the callousness of the “cultured” toward human suffering. Donny George, the head of...
Likewise, in occupation-era France, citizens, such as those in the Lorrainian town of Jarny, went to great lengths to remove and hide stained-glass windows from their churches. Proud as this legacy makes them, it should also be a source of shame, for while France hid its stained glass...