A Restless Past: History And The American Public - Couverture rigide

Appleby, Joyce

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0742542521 ISBN 13 : 9780742542525

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2004

Synopsis

At a time when public commemorations and remembrances often develop into battlefields of contested meanings, historians play an even greater role in shaping the way the American public sees and understands its past. Distinguished historian Joyce Appleby has been at the forefront of many of the recent debates about historians and the public's history. In this engaging work, she brings together her most important reflections on the historian's craft and its importance. A Restless Past carefully examines the ways in which the dynamic events of the second half of the twentieth century have significantly altered the way historians approach the past and highlights the incredible power they hold in shaping a national identity. Through the considerable ideological shifts of the last half century, historians have responded by asking new questions about those who preceded us and created powerful identities for those who had been long ignored.

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À propos de l'auteur

Joyce Appleby is emerita professor of history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently the co-director of the History News Service, and is past president of the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0742542521
• ISBN 13: 9780742542525
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
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• Personne responsable: non disponible