Museums, monuments, and national parks : toward a new genealogy of public history /
"The rapid expansion of the field of public history since the 1970s has led many to believe that it is a relatively new profession. In this book, Denise D. Meringolo shows that the roots of public history actually reach back to the nineteenth century, when the federal government entered into th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amherst :
University of Massachusetts Press,
©2012.
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Colección: | Public history in historical perspective.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue : a new kind of technician : in search of the culture of public history
- A matter of national dignity : education and federal authority
- Managing the landscape : national parks, national monuments, and the use of public land
- Losing their identity : National Park Service museums and federal collections
- Ignorant and local-minded influences : historic sites and the expansion of the National Park Service
- Real park service men : on the ground and in the books
- Park service diggers : public historians and the problem of status
- Conclusion : toward a new genealogy of public history.