{"product_id":"book-jrzo","title":"Every Monument Will Fall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrought to you by Penguin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn't even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public art, and even universities - and one that has a deeper history than you might think.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTracing the origins of contemporary conflicts over art, heritage, memory, and colonialism, \u003ci\u003eEvery Monument Will Fall\u003c\/i\u003e joins the dots between the building of statues, the founding of academic disciplines like archaeology and anthropology, and the warehousing of stolen art and human skulls in museums - including the one in which he is a curator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart history, part biography, part excavation, the story runs from the Yorkshire wolds to the Crimean War, from southern Ireland to the frontline of the American Civil War, from the City of London to the University of Oxford - revealing enduring legacies of militarism, slavery, racism and white supremacy hardwired into the heart of our cultural institutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Monument Will Fall \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an urgent reappraisal of how we think about culture, and how to find hope, remembrance and reconciliation in the fragments of an unfinished violent past. Refusing to choose between pulling down every statue, or living in a past that we can never change, the book makes the case for allowing monuments to fall once in a while, even those that are hard to see as monuments, rebuilding a memory culture that is in step with our times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e© Dan Hicks 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin UK","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49793753907504,"sku":"BDjrzo","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/jrzo-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779557873","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-jrzo","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}