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This groundbreaking text brings together experts in the field of visual art markets to answer some fundamental questions: - Is art a good investment? - Why is the art market dominated by America and Western Europe? - Where are the key emerging markets and what are the next good buys in art? Providing readers with an understanding of the challenges facing art market 'makers' (dealers, auctioneers, collectors and artists) and the decision-making process experienced by market 'players' and investors, this exciting text merges the key theories with examples of practice in a highly accessible style. Written by an international array of experts from the US, the UK and China, this book is essential reading for all those studying or interested in art markets and management.

In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands threatened another wave of unemployment and eviction for the land-working population, which led to widespread and varied social protest. This book not only offers new insights and a greater understanding of what was happening in the Highlands in this period, but illustrates how a range of forms of protest were used which demand attention, not least for the fact that these events, unlike most of the earlier Land Wars period, were successful.

The collision between 'official', elite and state-sanctioned conservation schemes and those reliant on the use of the land and its resources for their livelihood has long been a touchstone of North American environmental history. In the still emergent environmental-history movement in the UK, however, such concerns remain obscure. This paper offers a departure. Drawing on Karl Jacoby's concept of 'moral ecology' developed in the context of dispossessions enacted in the making of US national parks, the paper examines three 'moments' when, in the name of 'conservation', elites attempted to delimit and restrict customary ways of being in rural Gloucestershire. In so doing, the paper not only shows that such schemes were resisted and were a critical way in which demotic-elite and local-central relations were shaped, but also that externally imposed conservation schemes placed nature-culture relations as a critical wellspring of protest and politics in the countryside. Moral ecology therefore allows for a close attention to the importance of the material – and discursive framings of the material – in the study of conflict and protest past and present, and forces historians of the countryside to take seriously the ways in which vernacular environmental ethics shaped both past landscapes and social relations.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Moral Ecologies: Histories of Conservation, Dispossession and Resistance -- Moral Ecology: Concept and Roots -- Moral Ecology: Parallels -- Moral Ecology: Routes -- Moral Ecologies: The Book -- Part I Conservation as Dispossession -- Chapter 2 Politics of Conservation, Moral Ecology and Resistance by the Sonaha Indigenous Minorities of Nepal -- Introduction and Background -- Sonaha Moral Ecology, Customary Livelihoods and Practices -- State Conservation Interventions -- Contestations and Resistance -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Global Ecologies and Local Moralities: Conservation and Contention on Western Australia's Gascoyne Coast -- Introduction -- Shark Bay -- Historical Background -- World Heritage Listing -- After World Heritage Listing -- North West Cape and Ningaloo Reef -- Historical Background -- World Heritage Listing -- After World Heritage Listing -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 From Activists to Illegally Occupying Land: Aboriginal Resistance as Moral Ecology in Perth, Western Australia -- Introduction -- The Site -- Settler Colonialism, Sovereignty and the City -- The Battle for Goonininup -- Aboriginality and Settler Colonialism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Ghosts in the Forest: The Moral Ecology of Environmental Governance Toward Poor Farmers in the Brazilian and US Atlantic Forests -- Ghosts in the Forest -- Critical Perspectives on Conservation -- Afforestation and Biocentric Expropriation in the North Atlantic Forest -- Land Redundancy, Conservation Units and Hillbilly Removal -- From Regeneration to Deforestation and Back Again? -- Afforestation and Biocentric Expropriation in the South Atlantic Forest -- Preservation Governance in the Most Threatened Brazilian Biome.

List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Thomas Carter, David C. Harvey, Roy Jones and Iain J.M. Robertson Bygones, survivals and 'all the old rubbish': curatorial discernment and the failure to create an English folk museum Thomas Carter Disruptive forms, persistent values: negotiating digital heritage and 'The Memory of the World' Elizabeth Stainforth 'Tracking' working class heritage Iain J.M. Robertson Tempelhof Airport in Berlin: conflicting realms of heritage Dagmar Zadrazilova Hidden heritage and secret coves: analysing a discourse used to communicate about heritage and reflecting on its ontological politics Timothy J. Wilkinson A geomorphic paradox: performing histories of change as the land-slips away Frances Ryfield Ancestral tourism and heritage work on a Hebridean island Joanna Rodgers Remembering animals of the past and creating new sculptures of animal relationships with humans Hilda Kean From imperialism to inclusion: the evolving representations of heritage in Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia Roy Jones Are all forgotten friends worthy of memory? The public history of biotechnology in Canada Peter Anderson The heritage of agricultural innovation and technical change in post-war Britain: heroic narratives, hidden histories and stories from below David C. Harvey, Paul Brassley, Matthew Lobley and Michael Winter Heritage and sustainable development: the case of tobacco agriculture in eastern Taiwan Han-Hsiu Chen Afterword Thomas Carter, David C. Harvey, Roy Jones and Iain J.M. Robertson Index

Defines the interdisciplinary field of Rural Modernity through analysis of British literature, art and cultureRural Modernity in Britain argues that the rural areas of Britain were impacted by modernisation just as much – if not more – than urban and suburban areas. It is the first study of modernity and modernism to focus on rural people and places that experienced economic depression, the expansion of transportation and communication networks, the roll out of electricity, the loss of land, and the erosion of local identities. Who celebrated these changes? Who resisted them? Who documented them?Essays in this collection make the case that the rural means more than just the often-studied countryside of southern England, a retreat from the consequences of modernity; rather, the rural emerges as a source for new versions of the modern, with an active role in the formation and development of British experiences and representations of modernity.Key FeaturesIntrodues readers to concept of rural modernity that locates its critical intervention in fields of modernism and modernity studiesSplit into five sections addressing Networks, Landscapes, Communities, Heritage, and WarIncludes In dialogue with" suggestions to guide readers across interdisciplinary contents of diverse chaptersContributors from England, Scotland, USA, New Zealand and Canada, representing fields of literature, art history, history, geography, and cultural studies"