Public History Reader

Name: Public History Reader
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ISBN: 9780415520416

ISBN-10: 041552041X

ISBN-13: 9780415520416

Edition: 2013

Authors: Hilda Kean, Paul Martin

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Public history is growing internationally both as an intellectual area of historiography and as a field of potential employment. The Public History Reader provides both a comprehensive introduction to public history by facilitating understanding through contextualising debates and controversies and also by raising questions and suggesting possible responses. In a general introduction Hilda Kean shows that although the forms of history may be different, the idea that the past is used in different ways to create histories in the modern world is present and evident in a range of cultures and across time. She goes on to discuss different interpretations of the meaning of the phrase public…

Book details

List price: $46.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 2/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.85" wide x 9.69" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Hilda Kean is Tutor in History at Ruskin College, Oxford.



Acknowledgements


Introduction




The Past in the Present: Who is Making History?




Theatres of Memory




The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life




Heritage From Below: Class, Social Protest and Resistance




The Use and Abuse of Australian History




Taking History to Heart: The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements




Making History: The Historian and Uses of the Past




Forty Years of Conflict: State, Church and Spontaneous Representation of Massacres and Murder in Guatemala




Materials and Approaches to Making History




Evocative Objects: The Things that Matter




London Stories. Personal Lives, Public Histories




The Trade Union Badge: An Epoch of Minority Symbolism? The Pervasion of the Badge and the Contraction of the Union




The Future of Preserving the Past




Critical Cloth: To Be Continued … and the Time I'm Taking: Sewing Proust




History at the Crossroads: Australians and the Past




Intangible and Tangible Presentations of the Past




The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art and History in Rural North China




'Under the Same Roof': Separate Stories of Long Kesh/Maze




Recalling Community in Cape Town: Creating and Curating the District Six Museum




Golconda: Our Voices, Our Lives




Something Borrowed, Something New: History and the Waitangi Tribunal




Creating Memorials, Building Identities: The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic



Further Reading


Index