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Cultural policy

Here are entered works on official government policy toward educational, artistic, intellectual and other cultural activities and organizations in general. Works on the government policy of a specific country, state, etc. are entered under [Place -- Cultural policy.] Works on government policy toward a specific type of artistic or intellectual activity are entered under the appropriate subject, e.g. Literature and state.

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• Culture
• Intellectual life
• Popular culture

• Cultural policy -- Congresses
• Cultural policy -- Economic aspects
• Art and state
• Cultural property -- Protection
• Cultural property -- Repatriation
• Libraries and state
• Music and state
• Asia -- Cultural policy
• Bulgaria -- Cultural policy
• Canada -- Cultural policy
• China -- Cultural policy
• Germany (West) -- Cultural policy
• Japan -- Cultural policy
• New Orleans (La.) -- Cultural policy
• Romania -- Cultural policy
• Soviet Union -- Cultural policy
• United States -- Cultural policy
• Vietnam -- Cultural policy

• Intellectual life -- Government policy
• State encouragement of science, literature, and art

• Theory of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Richard Munch and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)

• Theory of Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), ed. by Richard Munch and Neil J. Smelser (HTML at UC Press)

• Developing Cultural Industries: Learning from the Palimpsest of Practice (Amsterdam: European Cultural Foundation, 2015), by Christiaan De Beukelaer (PDF at European Cultural Foundation)

• Government Support in the Netherlands for Visual Arts and Architecture (New York: Netherlands Information Service, ca. 1967) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Conflict and Cultural Heritage: A Moral Analysis of the Challenges of Heritage Protection (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, c2019), by Helen Frowe and Derek Matravers (HTML and EPub with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Beyond Berlin: Twelve German Cities Confront the Nazi Past (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2008), ed. by Gavriel David Rosenfeld and Paul B. Jaskot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Submerged Cultural Resources Study: USS Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor National Historic Landmark, ed. by Daniel J. Lenihan (illustrated HTML at National Park Service)

• "Lest We Forget": Oliver Hazard Perry, the War of 1812, the Battle of Lake Erie, The Centennial Celebration (with some inserted related newspaper clippings; 1912), by Annette P. Ward (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Conflict and Cultural Heritage: A Moral Analysis of the Challenges of Heritage Protection (Los Angeles: Getty Publications, c2019), by Helen Frowe and Derek Matravers (HTML and EPub with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Challenging the Dichotomy: The Licit and the Illicit in Archaeological and Heritage Discourses (originally published 2016; open access edition Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2020), ed. by Les W. Field, Cristóbal Gnecco, and Joe Watkins (PDF with commentary at Arizona)
• Between Two Earthquakes: Cultural Property in Seismic Zones (Rome: ICCROM; Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1987), by Bernard M. Feilden (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2015), ed. by Maja Kominko (multiple formats with audio and commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Recording, Documentation, and Information Management for the Conservation of Heritage Places (2 volumes; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2007), contrib. by Robin Letellier, Werner Schmid, François LeBlanc, Rand Eppich, and Amel Chabbi
  • Volume I (Guiding Principles): PDF at getty.edu
  • Volume II (Illustrated Examples): PDF files at getty.edu
• The Nature of Conservation: A Race Against Time (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1986), by Philip R. Ward (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Oxygen-Free Museum Cases, ed. by Shin Maekawa (PDF and page images at getty.edu and Google)

• The Future of Asia's Past: Preservation of the Architectural Heritage of Asia (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1995), ed. by Miguel Angel Corzo (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific: Conservation and Policy (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1993), ed. by Margaret G. H. Mac Lean (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Passé, Présent et Futur des Palais et Sites Royaux d'Abomey (in French; Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999) (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Of the Past, For the Future: Integrating Archaeology and Conservation (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c2006), ed. by Neville Agnew and Janet Bridgland (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)
• Conservation of Ancient Sites on the Silk Road: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Conservation of Grotto Sites (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2010), ed. by Neville Agnew (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Conservation of Archaeological Sites in the Mediterranean Region (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1997), ed. by Marta De la Torre (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific: Conservation and Policy (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1993), ed. by Margaret G. H. Mac Lean (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Building an Emergency Plan: A Guide for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, c1999), ed. by Valerie Dorge and Sharon L. Jones (PDF and page images with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Landmarks of a New Generation: User's Manual (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 1997), by Mahasti Ziai Afshar (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Pacific Island Heritage: Archaeology, Identity and Community (2011), ed. by Jolie Liston, Geoffrey R. Clark, and Dwight Alexander
  • PDF with commentary at ANU E Press
  • page images at JSTOR

• International Journal of Intangible Heritage (2006-) (full serial archives)
• SCIRES-IT: Scientific Research and Information Technology (in Italian and English; 2011-) (full serial archives)
• RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage (full serial archives)

• Cultural Resource Management (full serial archives)

• A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture (Madison and London: University of Wisconsin Press, c2004), by Will Fellows (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Claiming the Stones, Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2002), ed. by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• The Political Librarian (2015-) (full serial archives)

• Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2013), by David G. Tompkins
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• Composing the Party Line: Music and Politics in Early Cold War Poland and East Germany (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, c2013), by David G. Tompkins
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • page images and PDF at HathiTrust

• The Future of Asia's Past: Preservation of the Architectural Heritage of Asia (Marina del Rey, CA: Getty Conservation Institute, c1995), ed. by Miguel Angel Corzo (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• China: Promise or Threat? A Comparison of Cultures (Leiden and Boston: Brill, c2017), by Horst Jürgen Helle (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), ed. by Christina Maags and Marina Svensson (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Imperial Genus: The Formation and Limits of the Human in Modern Korea and Japan (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, c2016), by Travis Workman
  • multiple formats with commentary at Luminos
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• A World Transformed: The Politics of Culture in Revolutionary Vietnam, 1945-1965 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002), by Kim Ngoc Bao Ninh (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cold War From the Margins: A Small Socialist State on the Global Cultural Scene (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021), by Theodora Dragostinova (HTML with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Accounting for Culture: Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship (2005), ed. by Caroline Andrew, Monica Gattinger, M. Sharon Jeannotte, and Will Straw (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
• How Canadians Communicate III: Contexts of Canadian Popular Culture (2010), ed. by Bart Beaty, Derek Briton, Gloria Filax, and Rebecca Sullivan (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Civic Engagement in the Wake of Katrina (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Koritz and George J. Sanchez (HTML at Michigan)

• Culture and Freedom (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2001), ed. by Marin Aiftincă (multiple formats at Google)

• Culture of the Future: The Proletkult Movement in Revolutionary Russia (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1990), by Lynn Mally (HTML at UC Press)

• Invisible Cultural Policy in America: How Public Administration Shapes Culture (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: E. Elgar, c2025), by Eleonora Redaelli (PDF with commentary at Elgar Online)
• Introduction to Managing Digital Assets: Options for Cultural and Educational Organizations (Los Angeles: Getty Information Institute, c1999), by Diane Zorich (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

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