Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission

1. Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission: Methodological Considerations
Michael Falser

Part I. Direct Neighbours and the “Primitive”

2. Colonialism without Colonies: The Civilizing Missions in the Habsburg Empire
Werner Telesko

3. German Colonialism and the Formation of African Heritage
Winfried Speitkamp

Part II. Civilizing Missions (Post)colonial

4. Between the Colonial, the Global, and the Local—Civilizing India’s Past under Different Regimes
A. G. Krishna Menon

5. Save Borobudur! The Moral Dynamics of Heritage Formation in Indonesia across Orders and Borders, 1930s–1980s
Marieke Bloembergen, Martijn Eickhoff

Part III. From Cultural Brokers to Enlightened Dictators

6. “Decadence and Revival” in Cambodian Arts and the Role of George Groslier (1887–1945)
Gabrielle Abbe

7. The Civilizing Vision of an Enlightened Dictator: Norodom Sihanouk and the Cambodian Post-Independence Experiment (1953–1970)
Helen Grant Ross

Part IV. Archaeological Pasts for Revolutionary Presents

8. “Make the Past Serve the Present”: Reading Cultural Relics Excavated During the Cultural Revolution of 1972
Juliane Noth

9. The Myth of Angkor as an Essential Component of the Khmer Rouge Utopia
Henri Locard

Part V. Making Cultural Heritage Global

10. Representing Heritage without Territory—The Khmer Rouge at the UNESCO in Paris during the 1980s and their Political Strategy for Angkor
Michael Falser

11. Discourses and Practices between Traditions and World Heritage Making in Angkor after 1990
Keiko Miura

12. Epilogue: Clearing the Path towards Civilization – 150 Years of “Saving Angkor”
Michael Falser

13. Erratum to: Chapters 7 and 12 in Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission

Michael Falser

Keywords: Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Architectural History and Theory, Archaeology