A Future in Ruins: Unesco, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace

by Lynn Meskell

Book Overview

Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and intercultural understanding. Its mission was inspired by leading European...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190648341
• ISBN13: 9780190648343
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"