Making Histories Gebunden

If historical culture is the specific and particular ways that a society engages with its past this book aims to situate the professional practice of public history now emerging across the world within that framework. It links the increasingly varied practices of memory and history-making such as genealogy podcasting re-enactment family histories memoir writing film-making and facebook histories with the work that professional historians do both in and out of the academy. Making Histories asks questions about the role of the expert and notions of authority within a landscape that is i ncreasingly concerned with connection to the past and authenticity. The book is divided into four parts: 1. Resistance Rights Authority 2. Memory Memorialization Commemoration 3. Performance Transmission Reception 4. Family Private Self The four sections outline major themes emerging in public history across the world in the 21st century which are all underpinned by the impact of new media on historical practice and our central argument for the volume which advocates a more capacious definition of what constitutes 'public history'.