The public history reader
By: edited by Hilda Kean and Paul Martin
Series: Routledge readers in history
Publisher: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780415520409; 9780415520416
Subjects: Historiography; Public history; Philosophy; Public historians
Description: Drawing on theory and practice from five continents, this book offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history. It places people at the heart of history-making and discusses practical examples of artists, collectors, novelists, activists, curators, those paid to write history and those who do it for fun.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-342) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Introduction: The Past In The Present : Who Is Making History? / by Paul Martin; title: Theatres of Memory / Raphael Samuel; title: The Presence of the Past : Popular Uses of History in American Life / Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen; title: Heritage from below : class, social protest and resistance / Iain Robertson; title: Use and Abuse of Australian History / Graeme Davison; title: Taking History to Heart : The Power of the Past in Building Social Movements / James Green; title: Making History : The Historian and Uses of the Past / Jorma Kalela; title: Forty years of conflict : state, Church and spontaneous representation of massacres and murder in Guatemala / Matthew J. Taylor and Michael K. Steinberg; title: Part II. Introduction: Materials and approaches to making history / by Hilda Kean; title: Evocative Objects : Things We Think With / Sherry Turkle; title: London Stories : Personal Lives, Public Histories / Hilda Kean; title: The Trade Union Badge : Material Culture In Action / Paul Martin; title: The future of preserving the past / Daniel Cohen; title: Critical Cloth / Deborah Dean and Rhiannon Williams; title: History at the Crossroads : Australians and the Past / Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton; title: Part III. Introduction: Intangible and Tangible History / by Paul Martin; title: The Cult of Happiness : Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China / James A. Flath; title: "Under the same roof" : separate stories of Long Kesh/the Maze / Cahal McLaughlin; title: Town : creating and curating the District Six Museum / Sandra Prosalendis, Jennifer Marot, Crain Soudien and Anwah Nagia; title: Golconda : Our Voices, our Lives / Lawrence Scott; title: Something Borrowed, Something New : History and the Waitangi tribunal / Michael Belgrave; title: Creating Memories, Building Identities : The politics of memory in the Black Atlantic / Alan Rice.