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What is public history globally? : working with the past in the present / edited by Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik.

What is public history globally? : working with the past in the present / edited by Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik.
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ISBN 9781350033283
9781350033290
Title What is public history globally? : working with the past in the present / edited by Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik.
Publisher and/or associated date/s London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Description xxi, 365 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-356) and index.
Contents Pt. I Background, Definitions and Issues -- 1.Public History in Australia: History in Place / Mark Dunn -- 2.Public History in Britain: Repossessing the Past / Mark Donnelly -- 3.Public History in Canada: Public Service or public service? / Michelle A. Hamilton -- 4.Public History in China: Past Making in the Present / Na Li -- 5.Public History in Germany: Opening New Spaces / Nico Nolden -- 6.Public History in India: Towards a People's Past / Srijan Mandal -- 7.Public History in Indonesia: The Old Disorder? / Jaya Keaney -- 8.Public History in New Zealand: From Treaty to Te Papa / Alex Trapeznik -- 9.Public History in Scandinavia: Uses of the Past / Anne Brædder -- 10.Public History in South Africa: A Tool for Recovery / Julia C. Wells -- 11.Public History in the United States: Institutionalizing Old Practices / Thomas Cauvin -- pt. II Approaches and Methods -- 12.First Encounters: Approaching the Public Past / Meg Foster -- 13.Affective Afterlives: Public History, Archaeology and the Material Turn / Denis Byrne -- 14.The Archaeological Archive: Material Traces and Recovered Histories / Tracy Ireland -- 15.Archives and Public History: A Developing Partnership / Stephanie Krauss -- 16.`Speak, Memory': Current Issues in Oral and Public History / Paula Hamilton -- 17.Who Do You Think You Are? The Family in Public History / Anna Green -- 18.Love Thy Neighbour: Local and Community History / Tanya Evans -- 19.Grassroots Activism, Heritage and the Cultural Landscape: The Loud Fences Campaign / Keir Reeves -- 20.Past Continuous: Digital Public History through Social Media and Photography / Serge Noiret -- pt. III Sites of Public History -- 21.Remembering Dark Pasts and Horrific Places: Sites of Conscience / Jacqueline Z. Wilson -- 22.#Fake History: The State of Heritage Interpretation / Sue Hodges -- 23.`The Air Still Rings with the Excitement of Spanish Life': Ybor City and the Cuban Cigar / Christopher J. Castaneda -- 24.Forgetting and Remembering in Bhopal: Architects as Agents of Memory / Moulshri Joshi.
Summary Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence.This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History Globally? provides an in-depth examination of the ways in which ordinary people become active participants in historical processes and it will be an invaluable resource for advance undergraduates and postgraduates studying public history, museology and heritage studies.
Subjects Historiography
Historiography -- Case studies
Public history
Public history -- Case studies
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Ashton, Paul, 1959- (editor.)
Trapeznik, Alex (editor.)
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