The Wages of History: Emotional Labor on Public History's Front Lines (Public History in Historical Perspective)
A sophisticated analysis that brings together the politics of gender with the aesthetics of historical performance and the materialist sensibilities of political economy -- truly a multifaceted approach that adds something quite new to the critical literature on public history.(Cathy Stanton, author of The Lowell Experiment: Public History in a Postindustrial City)Tyson advances a new perspective to consider when assessing living history interpretation for appropriateness, effectiveness, and viability. Essential.(Choice)Straightforward, analytically clear, and quietly passionate... The book ends with a plea for recognition of the social worth of the work of museum interpretation.(Indiana Magazine of History)This book does an excellent job of demonstrating the difficulties inherent in first-person interpretation [especially concerning historically 'accurate' views of gender, class, race, and religion] ensuring it a well-deserved place on public history syllabi.(American Historical Review)