History in public space / edited by Joanna Wojdon and Dorota Wiśniewska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wojdon, Joanna, 1973- editor.

Wiśniewska, Dorota (Historian), editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Series:

Global perspectives on public history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public history.

Public spaces--Political aspects.

Public spaces.

Historic sites--Political aspects.

Historic sites.

Collective memory--Political aspects.

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 290 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Joanna Wojdon is a professor of history at the University of Wrocław, Poland. Her research interests include public history, Polish American history, history education, and the history of communist propaganda. She edited Public History in Poland (2022) and authored Textbooks as Propaganda. Poland under Communist Rule (2018); Communist Propaganda at School: The World of the Reading Primers from the Soviet Bloc, 1949-1989 (2021); and Polish American History after 1939 (2024). Dorota Wiśniewska is an assistant professor at the Institute of History, University of Wrocław, Poland. Her research concentrates on women's history, history didactics, and public history. She is the initiator of the International Public History Summer School in Wrocław (since 2018) and co-editor (with Joanna Wojdon) of Public in Public History (Routledge, 2021).

Contents:

Crossroads, Meeting Places, Battlefields : History Discussed and Contested by and for Public Space / Przemysław Wiszewski

History and Memory in the Public Spaces of a Pre-industrial Central European City : Warsaw in the Long Eighteenth Century / Dorota Wiśniewska

Chicago, Public History, and Historical Discourse / Dominic A. Pacyga

Using Public Spaces to Forge National Unity in North Korea / Seung Hwan Ryu

Lights of Innovation : Interpreting History through Art in Country Houses / Violeta Tsenova

Transforming Workspaces into Sites of Public History : Former Mineworkers as Stakeholders and Creators at Museal Institutions in Poland and England / Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Grace Simpson

Be Where the People Are : Public Historical Engagement in the Public Space / Joëlla van Donkersgoed

The "História ao Ar Livre" ("History in the Open") Project and the Making of Public History in Recife, Brazil / Luiz Paulo Ferraz

Memory Wars : The Curation of the History of the First World War in the Public Space of Dublin, 1922-1939 / Caitlin White

Negotiating of "Bottom-up" Public History in Post-Transition Cambodia / Corin Sweeny Deinhart

Decommunization of Public Space in East-Central Europe / Łukasz Kamiński

Cemeteries as Manifestations of History in Public Space / Katarzyna Witek-Dryjańska

Revealing Narratives about National Identity in East Prussia's State Museum : On Reconstructing Past Public History Spaces / Christina Flöhr

History in Transnational Virtual Public Spaces of Videogames / Joanna Wojdon and Anastasiia Kolomeitseva

"Pop-Up History" : Taking History to the Streets in Canada's Capital City / David Dean.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2024).

Other Format:

Print version: History in public space

ISBN:

9781003366348

1003366341

9781040112786

1040112781

Publisher Number:

40032415911

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.