Public History av Thomas Cauvin

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<P>The second edition of <I>Public History: A Textbook of Practice</I> offers an updated guide to the many opportunities and challenges that public history practitioners can encounter in the field.</P><P></P><P>Historians can play a dynamic and essential role in contributing to public understanding of the past, and those who work in historic preservation, in museums and archives, in government agencies, as consultants, as oral historians, or who manage crowdsourcing projects need very specific skills. This book links theory and practice and provides students and practitioners with the tools to do public history in a wide range of settings. This new edition reflects how much the field of public history has changed in the past few years, with public history now being more established and international. New chapters have therefore been added on the definition, history, and international scope of public history, as well as on specific practices and theories such as historical fictions, dig