Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission

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.