Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission [electronic resource] : From Decay to Recovery / edited by Michael Falser.

Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission. An Introduction -- Part I: Direct Neighbours and the Primitive -- Colonialism without Colonies: The Civilizing Missions in the Habsburg Empire -- German Colonialism and the Formation of African Heritage -- Part II: Civilizing Missions (post)colonial -- Between the Colonial, the Global, and the Local--Civilizing India's Past under Different Regimes -- Save Borobudur! The Moral Dynamics of Heritage Formation in Indonesia across Orders and Borders, 1930s-1980s -- Part III: From Cultural Brokers to Enlightened Dictators -- Decadence and Revival in Cambodian Arts and the Role of George Groslier (1887-1945) -- The Civilizing Vision of an Enlightened Dictator: Norodom Sihanouk and the Cambodian Post-Independence Experiment (1953-1970) -- Part IV: Archaeological Pasts for Revolutionary Presents -- Make the Past Serve the Present: Reading Cultural Relics Excavated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1972 -- The Myth of Angkor as an Essential Component of the Khmer Rouge Utopia -- Part V: Making Cultural Heritage Global -- Representing Heritage without Territory--The Khmer Rouge at the UNESCO in Paris During the 1980s and their Civilizing Mission for Angkor -- Discourses and Practices between Traditions and World Heritage Making in Angkor -- Epilogue: Paving the Way towards Civilization: 150 Years of Saving Angkor.