People and their pasts : public history today / edited by Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.Description: xiv, 304 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780230546691
- 0230546692
- 907.2 22 ASH
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Section 1. The making of history --
Section 2. Presenting the past in place and space --
Section 3. Material culture, memory and public histories.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-296) and index.
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 people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.
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