Heritage: Management, Interpretation, Identity

Heritage has developed as a field of study, both on its own and as an element within many other disciplines, such as geography, art history, archaeology, ecology and tourism management. Howard offers a textbook for students that approaches heritage as a combined field of study for the first time.

The areas covered range from the nature trail to the cathedral, and from the family album to the national park, viewed at a variety of levels which include family and local heritage as well as the national and international dimensions. Heritage is seen as a demand-led activity, its interested stakeholders being academics, governments, owners, schoolchildren, pilgrims and the media, as well as tourists. The practical management of the process of selection within heritage is something to which the text constantly returns.