Contested Histories in Public Space: Memory, Race, and Nation

✍ Scribed by Daniel J. Walkowitz (editor); Lisa Maya Knauer (editor)

Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 366
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Historians, anthropologists, and other scholars explore the public presentation of contested historical narratives in museums, monuments, texts, and festivals around the world.

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