What Is Public History Globally?
Working with the Past in the Present
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, Def…
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Weitere Autoren: Trapeznik, Alex (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-350-03326-9
- EAN: 9781350033269
- Produktnummer: 29590316
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 392 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 151'232 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 20 bw illus
Über den Autor
Paul Ashton is an Adjunct at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, which he co-founded, the Centre for Applied History at Macquarie University and the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. His publications include Once Upon a Time: Australian Writers on Using the Past (2016) and Australian History Now (2013). He is also founding co-editor of the journal Public History Review.Alex Trapeznik is Associate Professor of History at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on historical and cultural heritage management issues in New Zealand and globally. He is the author of Common Ground? Heritage and Public Places in New Zealand (2000), a key text that helped establish public history as a discipline in New Zealand.
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