The Contesting History: Narratives of Public History

by Jeremy Black

Book Overview

Contesting History is an authoritative guide to the positive and negative applications of the past in the public arena and what this signifies for the meaning of history more widely. Using a global, non-Western model, Jeremy Black examines the employment of history by the state, the media, the national collective memory and others and considers its fundamental significance in how we understand the past.

Moving from public life pre-1400...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1472519507
• ISBN13: 9781472519504
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"