This book focuses on various manifestations of history in public spaces: in the physical ones of various historical times and geographical places, as well as in the virtual world.
It discusses how the spaces have been shaped and re-shaped, by whom and for what (not always laudable) purposes and raises pragmatical and ethical questions for both research and practical activities in the field. By combining both micro and global perspectives, the universal role that history plays in spaces created by and for, as well as the factors determining its usages, is revealed. The authors are rooted in specific national contexts: Canadian or American, Ukrainian or Polish, British or Irish, German or Luxembourgish, Korean or Brazilian, and the case studies are varied including large cities and small towns, city centers and godforsaken cemeteries, but the narratives built on these cases go beyond when they deal with issues such as decoding history and its meanings in public spaces, doing history in public spaces and observing changes in manifestations of history in public spaces.
This volume is an essential resource for anyone interested in the relationship between history and public space in a global perspective.
Introduction: Crossroads, Meeting Places, Battlefields. History Discussed and Contested by and for Public Space PART 1: READING HISTORY IN PUBLIC SPACE 1. History and Memory in the Public Spaces of a Pre-industrial Central European City: Warsaw in the Long Eighteenth Century 2. Chicago, Public History, and Historical Discourse 3. Using Public Spaces to Forge National Unity in North Korea PART 2: DOING HISTORY IN PUBLIC SPACE 4. Lights of Innovation: Interpreting History through Art in Country Houses 5. Transforming Workspaces into Sites of Public History: Former Mineworkers as Stakeholders and Creators at Museal Institutions in Poland and England 6. Be Where the People Are: Public Historical Engagement in the Public Space 7. The “História ao Ar Livre” (“History in the Open”) Project and the Making of Public History in Recife, Brazil PART 3: CHANGING PUBLIC SPACE 8. Memory Wars: The Curation of the History of the First World War in the Public Space of Dublin, 1922−1939 9. Negotiating of “Bottom-up” Public History in Post-Transition Cambodia 10. Decommunization of Public Space in East-Central Europe 11. Cemeteries as Manifestations of History in Public Space PART 4: “UNREAL” SPACE AND HISTORY 12. Revealing Narratives about National Identity in East Prussia’s State Museum. On Reconstructing past Public History Spaces 13. History in Transnational Virtual Public Spaces of Videogames 14. Conclusion: “Pop-Up History”: Taking History to the Streets in Canada’s Capital City
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