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A Companion to Public History
David M. Dean (Edited by)
9781118508947, Wiley
Hardback, published 17 August 2018
576 pages
24.6 x 17.3 x 3.6 cm, 1.111 kg
An authoritative overview of the developing field of public history reflecting theory and practice around the globe This unique reference guides readers through this relatively new field of historical inquiry, exploring the varieties and forms of public history, its relationship with popular history, and the ways in which the field has evolved internationally over the past thirty years. Comprised of thirty-four essays written by a group of leading international scholars and public history practitioners, the work not only introduces readers to the latest scholarly academic research, but also to the practice and pedagogy of public history. It pays equal attention to the emergence of public history as a distinct field of historical inquiry in North America, the importance of popular history and ‘history from below’ in Europe and European colonial-settler states, and forms of historical consciousness in non-Western countries and peoples. It also provides a timely guide to the state of the discipline, and offers an innovative and unprecedented engagement with methodological and theoretical problems associated with public history. Generously illustrated throughout, The Companion to Public History’s chapters are written from a variety of perspectives by contributors from all continents and from a wide variety of backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences. It is an excellent source for getting readers to think about history in the public realm, and how present day concerns shape the ways in which we engage with and represent the past. The Companion is intended for senior undergraduate students and graduate students in the rapidly growing field of public history and will appeal to those teaching public history or who wish to introduce a public history dimension to their courses.
List of Illustrations xi Notes on Contributors xv Acknowledgments xxv Introduction 1 Prologue: Orphan Cupboards Full of Histories 13 Part I Identifying Public History 17 1 Complicating Origin Stories: The Making of Public History into an Academic Field in the United States 19 2 Where Is Public History? 33 3 Consuming Public History: Russian Ark 45 4 Historians on the Inside: Thinking with History in Policy 59 Part II Situating Public History 75 5 Nation, Difference, Experience: Negotiating Exhibitions at the National Museum of Australia 77 6 Archive Fever, Ghostly Histories 97 7 Digital Public History 111 8 Popularizing the Past through Graphic Novels: An Interview with Catherine Clinton, Author of Booth 125 9 Becoming a Center: Public History, Assembly, and State Formation in Canada’s Capital City, 1880–1939 135 Part III Doing Public History 147 10 Looking the Tiger in the Eye: Oral History, Heritage Sites, and Public Culture 149 11 Storytelling, Bertolt Brecht, and the Illusions of Disciplinary History 163 12 Genealogy and Family History 175 13 The Power of Things: Agency and Potentiality in the Work of Historical Artifacts 187 14 An Unfinished Story: Nation Building in Kyrgyzstan 201 Part IV Using Public History 215 15 Colonialism Revisited: Public History and New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal 217 16 Repatriation: A Conversation 231 17 The Transformative Power of Memory: Notes on the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada in Light of the Colombian Experience 243 18 Sophiatown and the Politics of Commemoration 263 19 Tourism and Heritage Sites of the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slavery 277 Part V Preserving Public History 289 20 Material Culture as History: Science and the International Ordering of Heritage Preservation 291 21 Preservation and Heritage: The Case of Al‐Jazeera Al‐Hamra in the United Arab Emirates 301 22 Centennial Dilemmas 311 23 Preserving Public History: Historic House Museums 321 24 Placing the Photograph: Digital Composite Images and the Performance of Place 333 Part VI Performing Public History 349 25 Reenacting and Reimagining the Past 351 26 Reenacting the Stone Age: Journeying Back in Time Through the Uckermark and Western Pomerania 365 27 Performing Continuity, Performing Belonging: Three Cabarets from the Terezín Ghetto 377 28 Performing History: Jongos, Quilombos, and the Memory of Illegal Atlantic Slave Trade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 391 29 Video Games as Participatory Public History 405 Part VII Contesting Public History 417 30 Public Historians and Conflicting Memories in Northern Ireland 419 31 Trauma and Memory 431 32 Museums and National History in Conflict: Two Case Studies in Taiwan 441 33 Between Public History and History Education 455 34 Labeling History: Localizing Olives and Negotiating the Greek Past in Turkey 465 Epilogue: To Put Your Signature: Tanzania’s Graffiti Movement 479 Bibliography 483 Index 533
David Dean
Annemarie de Wildt
Rebecca Conard
Hilda Kean
Jerome de Groot
Alix R. Green
Kirsten Wehner
Carolyn Steedman
Serge Noiret
Elizabeth Paradis and Catherine Clinton
John C. Walsh
Indira Chowdhury
Steven High
Tanya Evans
Sandra H. Dudley
Gulnara Ibraeva
Michael Belgrave
George Abungu, Te Herekiekie Herewini, Richard Handler, and John Moses
Patrick Morales Thomas
Natasha Erlank
Ana Lucia Araujo
Tim Winter
Hamad M. Bin Seray
John H. Sprinkle, Jr.
Linda Young
James Opp
Amy M. Tyson
Vanessa Agnew
Lisa Peschel
Hebe Mattos and Martha Abreu
Jeremiah McCall
Thomas Cauvin
Jenny Edkins
Chia‐Li Chen
Joanna Wojdon
Helin Burkay
Seth M. Markle
Subject Areas: History [HB]
