The Public History Reader

Herausgeber: Kean, Hilda; Martin, Paul

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on theory and practice from five continents The Public History Reader offers clearly written accessible introductions to debates in public history. It places people, such as practitioners, bloggers, archivists, local historians, curators or those working in education, 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. Hilda Kean and Paul Martin address the historical imagination through such concepts as 'embodiment' and 'nostalgia' whilst using practical examples to demonstrate them. The Reader explores public history as an everyday practice rather than simply as an academic discipline. It is embedded in the idea that historical knowledge is discovered and accrued from everyday encounters people have with their environments and points to the continuing dialogue that the present has with the past, exploring why this has burgeoned on a popular level in recent years. Public History Reader is, therefore, a perfect resource for all students of Public History and all those interested in understanding the role of the past in our lives today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415520409
• ISBN-10: 0415520401
• Artikelnr.: 36077274

Autorenporträt

Dr Hilda Kean is former dean and director of public history at Ruskin college, Oxford where she established the first MA in Public History in Britain. Her books include London stories. Personal lives, public histories (2004) and People and their pasts. Public history today with Paul Ashton (2009) Dr Paul Martin was tutor in public history at Ruskin college, Oxford 1997-2012. He is currently a distance learning tutor with the School of Museum Studies, Leicester University. His books include Popular Collecting and the Everyday Self (1999) and The Trade Union Badge (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Hilda Kean Part I: Introduction: The Past In The Present: Who
Is Making History? Paul Martin 1. Theatres of Memory Raphael Samuel 2. The
Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life Roy
Rosenzweig and David Thelen 3. Heritage from below: class, social protest
and resistance Iain Robertson 4. Use and Abuse of Australian History
Graeme Davison 5. Taking History to Heart, The Power of the Past in
Building Social Movements James Green 6. Making History. The Historian and
Uses of the Past Jorma Kalela 7. Forty years of conflict: state, Church and
spontaneous representation of massacres and murder in Guatemala Matthew J
Taylor and Michael K Steinberg Part II: Introduction: Materials and
approaches to making history Hilda Kean 1. Evocative Objects:Things We
Think With Sherry Turkle 2. London Stories. Personal Lives, Public
Histories Hilda Kean 3. The Trade Union Badge: Material Culture In Action
Paul Martin 4. The future of preserving the past Daniel Cohen 5. Critical
Cloth Deborah Dean and Rhiannon Williams 6. History at the Crossroads.
Australians and the Past Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton Part III:
Introduction: Introduction Intangible and Tangible History Paul Martin 1.
The Cult of Happiness. Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China
James A. Flath 2. 'Under the same roof': separate stories of Long Kesh /the
Maze Cahal McLaughlin 3. Town: creating and curating the District Six
Museum Sandra Prosalendis, Jennifer Marot, Crain Soudien and Anwah Nagia
4. Golconda Our Voices our Lives Lawrence Scott 5. Something Borrowed,
Something New: History and the Waitangi tribunal Michael Belgrave 6.
Creating Memories Building Identities. The politics of memory in the black
Atlantic Alan Rice. Further Reading.