This volume focuses on both the theoretical and technical aspects of conservation in the nineteenth century, as well as their impact on the profession today.

This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and wr

In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the

The ideas and practices that comprise “conservation” are often assumed to have arisen within the last two centuries. However, while conservation today has b

A major history of early Americans' ideas about conservation Fifty years after the American Revolution, the yeoman farmers who made up a large part of the new c