Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preludes : founding myth and archive
  • The 'Alexandria Project' in the western imagination
  • 'On the ruins' : postcolonial heritage metamorphosis
  • Contemporary return to Alexandria : international sacred dramas
  • 'Revivalism between worlds' : UNESCO and GOAL
  • 'Meltdown' : revivalism's 'time of anxiety'
  • 'Spirit of aspiration' : archaeological revivalism and recuperation
  • Urban shock therapy : Alexandria's 'Las Vegasisation'
  • 'Windows onto contemporary worlds'.