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Making histories in museums

Title
Making histories in museums / edited by Gaynor Kavanagh.
Publication
London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors
Kavanagh, Gaynor.
Description
xv, 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Making histories in museums
Uniform Title
Making histories in museums
Subject
  • Museums > History
  • Historical museums > History
  • Museum techniques > History
  • Historiography > History
  • History > Methodology
  • Historiography
  • Museums
  • History
  • Historiography
  • Museums > history
  • Historiography > history
  • History > methods
  • Museums
  • History
  • historiography
  • museums (institutions)
  • history (discipline)
  • Historical museums
  • History > Methodology
  • Museum techniques
  • Historische musea
  • Historisch besef
  • Historiographie > Histoire
  • Histoire > Méthodologie
  • Musées > Histoire
  • Musées d'histoire
  • Musées scientifiques et techniques > Histoire
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Making Histories, Making Memories / Gaynor Kavanagh -- 2. Time Heals: Making History in Medical Museums / Ken Arnold -- 3. Making Rural Histories / Jonathan Bell -- 4. Why Not Invent the Past We Display in Museums? / Anthony D. Buckley -- 5. Trying To Be an Honest Woman: Making Women's Histories / Elizabeth Carnegie -- 6. Making Family Histories in the National Portrait Gallery, Australia / Julia Clark -- 7. African Americans, History and Museums: Preserving African American History in the Public Arena / Spencer R. Crew -- 8. Making Histories of African Caribbeans / Alissandra Cummins -- 9. Cleaning Up the Coal-Face and Doing Out the Kitchen: The Interpretation of Work and Workers in Wales / Kath Davies -- 10. Hard Men, Hard Facts and Heavy Metal: Making Histories of Technology / Lawrence Fitzgerald.
ISBN
  • 0718500075
  • 9780718500078
LCCN
96033747
OCLC
  • ocm34282324
  • 34282324
  • SCSB-2101437
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library