{"product_id":"every-monument-will-fall","title":"Every Monument Will Fall","description":"There's a culture war, we're told. Or maybe it's a war on culture - a war with a deeper and more troubling history than you might think.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, colonialism and memory, Dan Hicks joins the dots between the building of statues, the founding of disciplines like archaeology and anthropology, and the acquisition of stolen art and ancestral human remains.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part history, part biography, part excavation, \u003ci\u003eEvery Monument Will Fall\u003c\/i\u003e pulls at a thread that runs through this history - from country houses in the Yorkshire Wolds to Caribbean plantations and from the battlefields of Crimea and the American Civil War to British colonial outposts in southern Ireland. The book holds the memorialisations of men like Cecil Rhodes and General Augustus Pitt-Rivers up against the writing of Sylvia Wynter, Stuart Hall and Ursula Le Guin, drawing together open secrets about dehumanisation and the redaction of public memory.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e What emerges is a speculative history of inheritance, loss, collective mourning, and the possibility of a reconciliation that has not yet begun. This is a story about who gets named and who doesn't, who is remembered and who is forgotten; who has been treated as human and who has not.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Refusing to choose between pulling down every single statue, or holding onto every last vestige of a past that future generations could never change, \u003ci\u003eEvery Monument Will Fall\u003c\/i\u003e makes the case for allowing monuments of all kinds to fall once in a while. The result is an urgent appeal to reassemble the fragments, listen to the silences, value life and humanity above material things - and to rebuild a new kind of memory culture.","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Every Monument Will Fall","offer_id":44705929101509,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-5291-5275-3.jpg?v=1746482517","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/every-monument-will-fall","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}