Conserving history in changing contexts
Introduction
What is architectural conservation?
What do we conserve?
Why conserve buildings and sites?
Who owns the past?
History, historiography, and architectural conservation
Problems, principles, and process
Perils to built heritage
Options for involvement
Principles, charters, and ethics
The conservation process
Participants in architectural conservation
Conservation of the built environment: an enduring concern
Prehistory through the fourteenth century
Fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries
The forging of a discipline: the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries
Contemporary architectural conservation practice
International activities and cooperation
A multidimensional field for the twenty-first century
A summary global tour of contemporary practice: challenges and solutions
The past in the future.