Packaging The Past?
Public Histories
Published on 28. February 2014
272 pages
978-0-522-86576-9 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, a special edition of the journal Australian Historical Studies, essays by leading academic and freelance historians look at the newest trends in teaching and appreciating the past.
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05/1991
Melbourne University Press
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Persons
John Rickard is Emeritus Professor of History at Monash University. He is the author of H. B. Higgins: The Rebel as Judge, The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year for 1984, Australia: A Cultural History, Packaging the Past?: Public Histories, A Family Romance: The Deakins at Home and An Imperial Affair: Portrait of an Australian Marriage.
Content
- Intro
- Packaging the Past?
- Packaging the Past?
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PARADIGMS OF PUBLIC HISTORY
- HISTORY AND NATURAL HISTORY: CONSERVATION MOVEMENTS IN CONFLICT?*
- MONEY, TASTE AND INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE
- HISTORICAL HOMES
- 'NOCTURNAL DEMOLITIONS': THE LONG MARCH TOWARDS HERITAGE LEGISLATION IN QUEENSLAND
- HERITAGE LEGISLATION IN THE TERRITORY1
- HISTORY ON THE ROCKS
- AT HOME WITH SANDY STONE: CONSERVING CAMBERWELL
- THE BATTLE FOR NEWCASTLE: HERITAGE AND THE EARTHQUAKE
- COUNTRY STYLE: THE MARKET AND THE MUSEUM
- SELLING THE PAST: HISTORY IN MUSEUMS IN THE 1990s
- HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION AT SOVEREIGN HILL*
- WORKING FOR THE LIVING MUSUEM OF THE WEST1
- ABORIGINES, MEMORIALS AND THE HISTORY OF THE FRONTIER1
- WAR MEMORIALS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: A COMPARATIVE SURVEY
- TEACHING APPLIED HISTORY
- 'STRANGER THAN FICTION': THE DAILY MIRROR 'HISTORICAL FEATURE'
- THE LOCAL HISTORY INDUSTRY
- THE PROFESSIONAL HISTORIANS ASSOCIATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
- EXHIBITION REVIEWS
- BOOK REVIEWS
- BOOK NOTES
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX
