Contents

1. Illustration Credits
2. Preface
3. Acknowledgments
4. IContext
5. 1Introduction: We Are What We Preserve—and Don’t Preserve
6. 2A Tale of Monuments in Two Cities
7. IICultural Genocide
8. 3To Destroy Culture: Raphael Lemkin’s Lessons about Genocide and How They Relate to the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
9. 4Documenting Cultural Heritage in Syria
10. IIIApproaches to Preservation
11. 5Collecting as Preservation
12. 6Worth Dying For? Richard Nickel and Historic Preservation in Chicago
13. IVInformation or Object?
14. 7What Are We Really Trying to Preserve: The Original or the Copy?
15. 8It Takes a (Virtual) Village: Some Thoughts on Digital Preservation
16. VThe Greening of Preservation
17. 9Sustainable Preservation
18. VIEnduring, Ephemeral Preservation
19. 10Preservation: Enduring or Ephemeral?
20. 11Epilogue: Berlin as a City of Reconciliation and Preservation
21. Bibliography
22. Index