Consuming colonial nostalgia: The monumentalisation of historic hotels in urban South-East Asia

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 255-265

  Peleggi, Maurizio ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Architectural enhancement; Colonial nostalgia; Discursive authentication; Historicalness

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL HISTORY; HISTORIC BUILDING; NINETEENTH CENTURY; POST-COLONIALISM; TWENTIETH CENTURY; URBAN HISTORY;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 29144522866     PISSN: 13607456     EISSN: 14678373     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8373.2005.00289.x     Document Type: Review

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