Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission, 2015 From Decay to Recovery Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context Series

Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission. An Introduction.- Part I: Direct Neighbours and the Primitive.- Colonialism without Colonies: The Civilizing Missions in the Habsburg Empire.- German Colonialism and the Formation of African Heritage.- Part II: Civilizing Missions (post)colonial.- Between the Colonial, the Global, and the Local––Civilizing India’s Past under Different Regimes.- Save Borobudur! The Moral Dynamics of Heritage Formation in Indonesia across Orders and Borders, 1930s–1980s.- Part III: From Cultural Brokers to Enlightened Dictators.- Decadence and Revival in Cambodian Arts and the Role of George Groslier (1887–1945).- The Civilizing Vision of an Enlightened Dictator: Norodom Sihanouk and the Cambodian Post-Independence Experiment (1953–1970).- Part IV: Archaeological Pasts for Revolutionary Presents.- Make the Past Serve the Present: Reading Cultural Relics Excavated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1972.- The Myth of Angkor as an Essential Component of the Khmer Rouge Utopia.- Part V: Making Cultural Heritage Global.- Representing Heritage without Territory––The Khmer Rouge at the UNESCO in Paris During the 1980s and their Civilizing Mission for Angkor.- Discourses and Practices between Traditions and World Heritage Making in Angkor.- Epilogue: Paving the Way towards Civilization: 150 Years of Saving Angkor.