Places of pain and shame : dealing with 'difficult heritage'

This is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases - or, conversely, choose to forget them. Includes bibliographical references and index. xii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.