Foreword: Facing the Past / Charles Dellheim -- Niagara Falls: Preservation and the Spectacle of Anglo-American Accord / Melanie Hall -- Redeeming Holy Wisdom: Britain and St. Sophia / Erik Goldstein -- Early Preservation Efforts in Sri Lanka: William H. Gregory at Anuradhapura and Kandy / Anne M. Blackburn -- Conflict and Neglect: Between Ruin and Preservation at the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem / Raymond Cohen -- 'The Shrine at Sulgrave': The Preservation of the Washington Ancestral Home as an 'English Mount Vernon' and Transatlantic Relations / T.G. Otte -- The Law's Delay? Preservation Legislation in France, Germany and England, 1870-1914 / Astrid Swenson -- Heritage and its Communities: Reflections on the English Experience in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Chris Miele -- America's Early Historic Preservation Movement (1850-1930) in a Transatlantic Context / Michael Holleran -- Conservation and the Professions: The Swedish Context 1880-1920 / Ola Wetterberg -- Rethinking the 'Powers of Darkness': An Anti-History of the Preservation Movement in Britain / Peter Mandler.