| Description |
xiv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: People and their Pasts and Public History Today -- Section 1 The Making of History -- 1 Connecting with History: Australians and their Pasts -- 2 Usable Pasts: Comparing Approaches to Popular and Public History -- 3 The Past as a Public Good: The US National Park Service and 'Cultural Repair' in Post-Industrial Places -- 4 Shades of Grey: Public History and Government in New Zealand -- Section 2 Presenting the Past in Place and Space -- 5 'Garden of Gratitude': The National Memorial Arboretum and Strategic Remembering -- 6 Re-enacting the Wars of the Roses: History and Identity -- 7 Creating New Pasts in Museums: Planning the Museum of London's Modern London Galleries -- 8 'Monument Mania'? Public Space and the Black and Asian Presence in the London Landscape -- 9 Museum Theatre: Children's Reading of 'First Person Interpretation' in Museums -- Section 3 Material Culture, Memory and Public Histories -- 10 A Nation's Moment and a Teacher's Mark Book: Interconnecting Personal and Public Histories -- 11 Absent Fathers, Present Histories -- 12 'Memoryscape': Integrating Oral History, Memory and Landscape on the River Thames -- 13 Expanding the Archive: The Role of Family History in Exploring Connections Within a Settler's World -- 14 Harry Jacobs: The Studio Photographer and the Visual Archive |
| Summary |
"This international collection draws together museum professionals, family and local historians, re-enactors, archivists and a range of pubic history contirbutors to discuss and explore forms of public history. Here, people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are central to the creation of different histories. Different understandings of the past are interrogated, analysed - and valued. Everyday experience alongside the moments of larger narratives are juxtaposed and subjected to scrutiny."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-296) and index |
| Subject |
Public history -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Ashton, Paul, 1959-
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Kean, Hilda.
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| LC no. |
2008030089 |
| ISBN |
0230546692 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780230546691 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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