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- ISBN-10:
- 1118508947
- ISBN-13:
- 9781118508947
- Pub. Date:
- 10/08/2018
- Publisher:
- Wiley
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This unique reference guides readers through this relatively new field of historical inquiry, exploring the varieties and forms of public history, its relationship with popular history, and the ways in which the field has evolved internationally over the past thirty years. Comprised of thirty-four essays written by a group of leading international scholars and public history practitioners, the work not only introduces readers to the latest scholarly academic research, but also to the practice and pedagogy of public history. It pays equal attention to the emergence of public history as a distinct field of historical inquiry in North America, the importance of popular history and ‘history from below’ in Europe and European colonial-settler states, and forms of historical consciousness in non-Western countries and peoples. It also provides a timely guide to the state of the discipline, and offers an innovative and unprecedented engagement with methodological and theoretical problems associated with public history.
Generously illustrated throughout, The Companion to Public History’s chapters are written from a variety of perspectives by contributors from all continents and from a wide variety of backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences. It is an excellent source for getting readers to think about history in the public realm, and how present day concerns shape the ways in which we engage with and represent the past.
- Cutting-edge companion volume for a developing area of study
- Comprises 36 essays by leading authorities on all aspects of public history around the world
- Reflects different national/regional interpretations of public history
- Offers some essays in teachable forms: an interview, a roundtable discussion, a document analysis, a photo essay.
- Covers a full range of public history practice, including museums, archives, memorial sites as well as historical fiction, theatre, re-enactment societies and digital gaming
- Discusses the continuing challenges presented by history within our broad, collective memory, including museum controversies, repatriation issues, ‘textbook’ wars, and commissions for Truth and Reconciliation
The Companion is intended for senior undergraduate students and graduate students in the rapidly growing field of public history and will appeal to those teaching public history or who wish to introduce a public history dimension to their courses.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118508947 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 10/08/2018 |
Series: | Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History |
Pages: | 576 |
Product dimensions: | 6.80(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.40(d) |
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xiNotes on Contributors xv
Acknowledgments xxv
Introduction 1David Dean
Prologue: Orphan Cupboards Full of Histories 13Annemarie de Wildt
Part I Identifying Public History 17
1 Complicating Origin Stories: The Making of Public History into an Academic Field in the United States 19Rebecca Conard
2 Where Is Public History? 33Hilda Kean
3 Consuming Public History: Russian Ark 45Jerome de Groot
4 Historians on the Inside: Thinking with History in Policy 59Alix R. Green
Part II Situating Public History 75
5 Nation, Difference, Experience: Negotiating Exhibitions at the National Museum of Australia 77Kirsten Wehner
6 Archive Fever, Ghostly Histories 97Carolyn Steedman
7 Digital Public History 111Serge Noiret
8 Popularizing the Past through Graphic Novels: An Interview with Catherine Clinton, Author of Booth 125Elizabeth Paradis and Catherine Clinton
9 Becoming a Center: Public History, Assembly, and State Formation in Canada’s Capital City, 1880–1939 135John C. Walsh
Part III Doing Public History 147
10 Looking the Tiger in the Eye: Oral History, Heritage Sites, and Public Culture 149Indira Chowdhury
11 Storytelling, Bertolt Brecht, and the Illusions of Disciplinary History 163Steven High
12 Genealogy and Family History 175Tanya Evans
13 The Power of Things: Agency and Potentiality in the Work of Historical Artifacts 187Sandra H. Dudley
14 An Unfinished Story: Nation Building in Kyrgyzstan 201Gulnara Ibraeva
Part IV Using Public History 215
15 Colonialism Revisited: Public History and New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal 217Michael Belgrave
16 Repatriation: A Conversation 231George Abungu, Te Herekiekie Herewini, Richard Handler, and John Moses
17 The Transformative Power of Memory: Notes on the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada in Light of the Colombian Experience 243Patrick Morales Thomas
18 Sophiatown and the Politics of Commemoration 263Natasha Erlank
19 Tourism and Heritage Sites of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery 277Ana Lucia Araujo
Part V Preserving Public History 289
20 Material Culture as History: Science and the International Ordering of Heritage Preservation 291Tim Winter
21 Preservation and Heritage: The Case of Al‐Jazeera Al‐Hamra in the United Arab Emirates 301Hamad M. Bin Seray
22 Centennial Dilemmas 311John H. Sprinkle, Jr.
23 Preserving Public History: Historic House Museums 321Linda Young
24 Placing the Photograph: Digital Composite Images and the Performance of Place 333James Opp
Part VI Performing Public History 349
25 Reenacting and Reimagining the Past 351Amy M. Tyson
26 Reenacting the Stone Age: Journeying Back in Time Through the Uckermark and Western Pomerania 365Vanessa Agnew
27 Performing Continuity, Performing Belonging: Three Cabarets from the Terezín Ghetto 377Lisa Peschel
28 Performing History: Jongos, Quilombos, and the Memory of Illegal Atlantic Slave Trade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 391Hebe Mattos and Martha Abreu
29 Video Games as Participatory Public History 405Jeremiah McCall
Part VII Contesting Public History 417
30 Public Historians and Conflicting Memories in Northern Ireland 419Thomas Cauvin
31 Trauma and Memory 431Jenny Edkins
32 Museums and National History in Conflict: Two Case Studies in Taiwan 441Chia‐Li Chen
33 Between Public History and History Education 455Joanna Wojdon
34 Labeling History: Localizing Olives and Negotiating the Greek Past in Turkey 465Helin Burkay
Epilogue: To Put Your Signature: Tanzania’s Graffiti Movement 479Seth M. Markle
Bibliography 483
Index 533