History, Policy and Public Purpose [electronic resource] : Historians and Historical Thinking in Government / by Alix R. Green.

Erişim Adresi
Link
ISBN
9781137520869
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/1317
Yazar
Green, Alix R.
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2016.
Yayın Bilgisi
London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
IX, 146 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
This book takes a fresh look at the connection between history and policy, proposing that historians rediscover a sense of ‘public purpose’ that can embrace political decision-making – and also enhance historical practice. Making policy is a complex and messy affair, calling on many different forms of expertise and historians have often been reluctant to get involved in policy advice, with those interested in ‘history in public’ tending to work with museums, heritage sites, broadcasters and community organisations. Green notes, however, that historians have also insisted that ‘history matters’ in public policy debate, and been critical of politicians’ distortions or neglect of the past. She argues that it is not possible to have it both ways. Alix Green is Lecturer in Public History at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She read history at the University of Cambridge and spent ten years in policy research and government relations before bringing her experience into academic research on the uses of history. She is particularly interested in historical thinking and the international and conceptual aspects of public history.
Konu
Collective memory.
Civilization __ History.
Cultural property.
Political science.
Memory Studies.
Cultural History.
Cultural Heritage.
Political Science.
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