Private Lives, Public Histories
$65.12
- Paperback
277 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2016
Summary
The past is consumed on a grand scale: popularised by television programs, enjoyed by reading groups, walking groups, historical societies and heritage tours, and supported by unprecedented digital access to archival records. Yet our history has also become the subject of heated political debate.In Private Lives, Public History, historian Anna Clark explores how our personal pasts intersect with broader historical questions. Drawing on interviews with Australians from five communities around …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522868951 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522868959 |
| Author: | Anna Clark |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 277 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2016 |
| Weight: | 194g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 127mm x 15mm |
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‘Anna Clark is the Alain de Botton of Australianhitoriography.’ – Claire Wright
About The Author
Anna Clark
Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. She has written extensively on history education, historiography and historical consciousness, including Teaching the Nation: Politics and Pedagogy in Australian History (2006); History’s Children: History Wars in the Classroom (2008); Private Lives, Public History (2016); The History Wars (2003) with Stuart Macintyre, as well as two history books for children, Convicted! and Explored! Reflecting her love of fish and fishing, she also recently wrote The Catch: The Story of Fishing in Australia (2018).
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