What Is Public History Globally? - Working with the Past in the PresentPaperback / softback
What Is Public History Globally? - Working with the Past in the PresentPaperback / softback Across the globe, history has gone public. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social…
Specifikacia What Is Public History Globally? - Working with the Past in the PresentPaperback / softback
What Is Public History Globally? - Working with the Past in the PresentPaperback / softback
Across the globe, history has gone public. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart.
Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. 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, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history
What is History?
What is Urban History?
What is Digital History?
What Is History, Now?
Public History in Poland
What is Early Modern History?