Return to Alexandria: Conflict and contradiction in discourses of origins and heritage revivalism

Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 55-74

  Butler, Beverley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203165096-9     Document Type: Chapter

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