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"The public history reader" was published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group in 2013 - London, it has 348 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: The public history reader
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 348
  • Publisher: ➤  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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  • Publish Location: London

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  • Pagination: 348 pages

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"The public history reader" Table Of Contents:

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

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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.

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