The main theme of this book is that a number of possible heritages can be shaped from the European past depending on the purposes for which they are intended. Through different methods of management intervention, heritage can fulfil a variety of functions, becoming a major commercial resource in the form of the tourism industry, or enlisted in the creation and maintenance of place identities.

1. A Heritage for Europe: The Need, the Task, the Contribution Part 1: Theories and contexts 2. From History to Heritage: From Heritage to Identity: In Search of Concepts and Models 3 What New Heritage for Which New Europe? Some Contextual Considerations Part 2: Producers and consumers 4.Tourism and Heritage: the Pressures and Challenges of the 1990s 5. Cultural tourism and Time-Space Behaviour 6. Who Consumes the Heritage Product? Implications for European Heritage Tourism Part 3: Choice: whose heritage, which heritage? 7.Whose Heritage? Global Problem, European Nightmare 8. Heritage Conservation and Revisionist Nationalism in Ireland 9. The Renaissance of Cultural Vernacularism in Germany 10. Urban Heritage in the Czech Republic Part 4: The achievement, hopes and limitations of heritage planning 11. Tourism: Support or Threat to Heritage? 12. Heritage and Culture: A Capital for the New Europe 13. A New Heritage for a New Europe: Problem and Potential. Indices.