Description: Contemporary Archaeology of London's Mega Events : From the Great Exhibition to London 2012, Paperback by Gardner, Jonathan, ISBN 1787358453, ISBN-13 9781787358454, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The contemporary archaeology of urban mega-events.
This book explores the traces of London’s most significant modern “mega events”: the Great Exhibition of 1851, the 1951 Festival of Britain’s South Bank Exhibition, and the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe, and their organizers self-consciously seek to leave a “legacy” that will endure for decades or more. Th argues that these spectacles must thus be seen as long-lived and persistent, rather than simply transient or short-term phenomena. It explores the long-term history of each event through contemporary archaeology, examining the contents and building materials of the Great Exhibition’s Crystal Palace and their extraordinary afterlife at Sydenham, South London; how the Festival of Britain’s South Bank Exhibition employed displays of ancient history to construct a new postwar British identity; and how London 2012 dealt with competing visions of the past as archaeology, waste, and heritage in creating a vision of the future.
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Book Title: Contemporary Archaeology of London's Mega Events : From the Great
Number of Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Name: Contemporary Archaeology of London's Mega events : from the Great Exhibition to London 2012
Language: English
Publisher: Ucl Press
Publication Year: 2022
Subject: Archaeology, Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, Modern / 19th Century, Europe / Great Britain / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 0 Oz
Author: Jonathan Gardner
Subject Area: Social Science, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
