History in public space / edited by Joanna Wojdon and Dorota Wiśniewska. - New York, NY : Routledge, 2025. - 1 online resource. - Global perspectives on public history .

Crossroads, Meeting Places, Battlefields : History Discussed and Contested by and for Public Space / Przemysław Wiszewski -- History and Memory in the Public Spaces of a Pre-industrial Central European City : Warsaw in the Long Eighteenth Century / Dorota Wiśniewska -- Chicago, Public History, and Historical Discourse / Dominic A. Pacyga -- Using Public Spaces to Forge National Unity in North Korea / Seung Hwan Ryu -- Lights of Innovation : Interpreting History through Art in Country Houses / Violeta Tsenova -- Transforming Workspaces into Sites of Public History : Former Mineworkers as Stakeholders and Creators at Museal Institutions in Poland and England / Marta Kurkowska-Budzan and Grace Simpson -- Be Where the People Are : Public Historical Engagement in the Public Space / Joëlla van Donkersgoed -- The "História ao Ar Livre" ("History in the Open") Project and the Making of Public History in Recife, Brazil / Luiz Paulo Ferraz -- Memory Wars : The Curation of the History of the First World War in the Public Space of Dublin, 1922-1939 / Caitlin White -- Negotiating of "Bottom-up" Public History in Post-Transition Cambodia / Corin Sweeny Deinhart -- Decommunization of Public Space in East-Central Europe / Łukasz Kamiński -- Cemeteries as Manifestations of History in Public Space / Katarzyna Witek-Dryjańska -- Revealing Narratives about National Identity in East Prussia's State Museum : On Reconstructing Past Public History Spaces / Christina Flöhr -- History in Transnational Virtual Public Spaces of Videogames / Joanna Wojdon and Anastasiia Kolomeitseva -- "Pop-Up History" : Taking History to the Streets in Canada's Capital City / David Dean.

"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. This volume is an essential resource for anyone interested in the relationship between history and public space in a global perspective"--

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Public history.
Public spaces--Political aspects.
Historic sites--Political aspects.
Collective memory--Political aspects.
HISTORY / Social History
HISTORY / Study & Teaching
HISTORY / World

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