What Is Public History Globally?: Working with the Past in the Present

by Paul Ashton

Book Overview

Across the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350033294
• ISBN13: 9781350033290
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"