Chapter 1 Contested Cultural Heritage: A Selective Historiography

Chapter 2 The Stratigraphy of Forgetting: The Great Mosque of Cordoba and Its Contested Legacy

Chapter 3 Aestheticized Geographies of Conflict: The Politicization of Culture and the Culture of Politics in Belfast’s Mural Tradition

Chapter 5 Re-imagining the National Past: Negotiating the Roles of Science, Religion, and History in Contemporary British Ghost Tourism

Chapter 6 Collecting and Repatriating Egypt’s Past: Toward a New Nationalism

Chapter 7 National Identity Interrupted: The Mutilation of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek Claim for Repatriation

Chapter 8 Syrian National Museums: Regional Politics and the Imagined Community

Chapter 9 Contestation from the Top: Fascism in the Realm of Culture and Italy’s Conception of the Past

Chapter 10 Touring the Slave Route: Inaccurate Authenticities in Bénin, West Africa

Chapter 11 Carving the Nation: Zimbabwean Sculptors and the Contested Heritage of Aesthetics

Chapter 12 Afterword: El Pilar and Maya Cultural Heritage: Reflections of a Cheerful Pessimist