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

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What Is Public History Globally?: Working with the Past in the Present - Ashton, Paul (Editor), and Trapeznik, Alex (Editor)
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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 history movements have now risen to prominence. This groundbreaking edited ...

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What Is Public History Globally?: Working with the Past in the Present 2019, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781350033290

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What Is Public History Globally?: Working with the Past in the Present 2019, Bloomsbury Academic, New York

ISBN-13: 9781350033283

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