Western Lands, Western Voices : Essays on Public History in the American West /

"This collection of essays explores the meanings and uses of contemporary public history in the American West"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Thompson, Gregory C. (Gregory Coyne), 1943- (writer of foreword.), Smoak, Gregory E., 1962- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
University of Utah. > American West Center.
University of Utah. > American West Center > History.
Public lands > Management.
Public history.
Public historians.
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Public historians > West (U.S.)
Public lands > West (U.S.) > Management.
Public history > West (U.S.) > History.
West United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : a legacy of publicly engaged scholarship / Gregory C. Thompson
  • Introduction : putting history to work in the American West / Gregory E. Smoak
  • Posing the question : what makes public history public? / Richard White
  • Taking a public turn : public history as public service in the American West / Leisl Carr Childers
  • Rothman's West : the education of a western public intellectual / Michael Childers
  • Mythic spaces, real places : thoughts on administrative history in the western national parks / Leighton M. Quarles
  • Prospecting the past : how public history and tourism remade Lake City, Colorado / Mette Flynt
  • Finding and building community on the Manito Trail / Trisha Venisa-Alicia Martínez and Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez
  • "Working on the dark side" : public land management and tribal relations / Yvette Towersap Tuell
  • The adjudication of Three Tribes' Water Rights / E. Richard Hart
  • "This is our home; this is our land" : memory, visual sovereignty, and museum exhibition on the Klamath River Basin / Brittani R. Orona
  • Placemaking in public : building a Native American studies program on the indigenous Columbia Plateau / Laurie Arnold
  • Scholarship, the public, and the challenge of local history / Jedediah Rogers
  • Building bridges / Stephen Aron and Virginia Scharff.

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