Making Public Pasts PDF book is popular History book written by Alan Gordon. The book was released by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP on 2001 with total hardcover pages 284. Fast download link is given in this page, you could read Making Public Pasts by Alan Gordon in PDF, epub and kindle directly from your devices.
It conscripts historical events in a bid to guide shared memories into a coherent narrative that helps individuals negotiate their place in broader collective i
What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to ans
Gordon shows that while individual memory is crucial to establishing and maintaining identity, public memory is contested terrain - official customs and traditi
In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for