In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which peopleb sexperience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives. ÍNDICE: - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: People and their Pasts and Public History; P.Ashton and H.Kean - PART I: THE MAKING OF HISTORY - Connecting with History: Australians and their Pasts; P.Ashton andP.Hamilton - Usable Pasts: Comparing Approaches to Popular and Public History; B.E.Jensen - The Past as a Public Good: the US National Park Service and b cultural repairb in Post-industrial Places; C.Stanton - Shades of Grey: Public History and Government in New Zealand; B.Dalley - PART II: PRESENTING THE PASTIN PLACE AND SPACE - 'Garden of Gratitude': the National Memorial Arboretum and Strategic Remembering; P.Gough - Re-enacting the Wars of the Roses: Historyand Identity; M.O'Brien Backhouse - Creating New Pasts in Museums: Planning the Museum of Londonb s Modern London Galleries ; D.McIntyre - Monument mania? Public Space and the Black and Asian Presence in London; J.Siblon - Museum Theatre: Childrenb s Reading of b first person interpretationb in Museums; V.Tzibazi - PART III: MATE
- ISBN: 978-0-230-54669-1
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 312
- Fecha Publicación: 19/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés