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W. G. East, et la. History in a Map.
The Geographical Journal, Vol. 126, No. 1 (March, 1960), pp. 49-51. Back | Original Document The professional historians in the Brisbane Southside History Network are seeking to revive the old discipline of historical geography as a refreshed tool in local history. This is being achieved in the Mapping Brisbane History Project (http://mappingbrisbanehistory.com.au/). The forum held…
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Unnamed. The Uses of State and Local History.
History News, Vol. 23, No. 12 December, 1968), pp. 233-242. Back | Original Document At the very same time that Fridley was linking local history with global history, the American Association for State and Local History, in this reading, were looking for practical ends in the link between state and local history. The American model…
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Timothy Baumann, et al. Interpreting Uncomfortable History at the Scott Joplin House State Historic Site in St. Louis, Missouri.
The Public Historian, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring 2011), pp. 37-66. Back | Original Document St. Louis, Missouri, is not a global city like New York, but it is a world-class city, and a world-renowned border city, which parallels the world-class status that can be seen in the Brisbane-Gold Coast corridor. In this collaboratively-written reading…
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Stephen Mosley. Common Ground: Integrating Social and Environmental History.
Journal of Social History, Vol. 39, No. 3, [Special Issue on the Future of Social History] (Spring, 2006), pp. 915-933. Back | Original Document Mosley in this reading brings us back to the consensus view, reaffirming social value and local environment history. The alignment between social or labour historians and environmentalism is explained in this…
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Russell W. Fridley. Local History and World Upheaval.
Minnesota History, Vol. 41, No. 4 (Winter, 1968), pp. 171-177. Back | Original Document By the late 1960s there is a consciousness of there being a new globalisation. “Think Globally, Act Locally”, was the catch-cry of the environmental and social movements of the left. It is somewhat ironic now, since globalisation has become seen as…
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Robert R. Weyeneth. What I’ve Learned Along the Way: A Public Historian's Intellectual Odyssey.
The Public Historian, Vol. 36, No. 2 (May 2014), pp. 9-25. Back | Original Document Indeed, what are the lessons we have learnt in the 20 readings in this document? The local historian works much closer to the public, and as Weyeneth says, “the interpretive fluidity of history is a mystery to the general public”.…
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Pierre Goubert. Local History.
Daedalus, Vol. 100, No. 1, Historical Studies Today (Winter, 1971), pp. 113-127. Back | Original Document Pierre Goubert provided a very informative history of the local history discipline within the European experience. This is particularly important because of the great clash with the famous Annales School and the French historiographical trend in the longue duree.…
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Philip Huang. County Archives and the Study of Local Social History: Report on a Year’s Research in China.
Modern China, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Jan., 1982), pp. 133-143. Back | Original Document One of the biggest challenges for local history is to take seriously the idea of multiculturalism. Very few local history works in Queensland achieve much outside of an Anglo-Celtic perspective. The Philip Huang reading does not address the issue of multiculturalism…
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Patricia Mooney-Melvin. Urban History, Local History and Public History.
History News, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Spring 1996), pp. 18-23. Back | Original Document The historian not only has to be aware of multi-disciplinary approaches, but also multi-historiographical approaches as well. By now the reader will get a sense that the latter half of the twentieth century was for history, as for many other humanities…
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Lucy Taksa. Like a Bicycle, Forever Teetering between Individualism and Collectivism: Considering Community in Relation to Labour History.
Labour History, No. 78 (May, 2000), pp. 7-32. Back | Original Document The public-private conflict mentioned above has been for several centuries in sharp focus in the battle between “the right” and “the left” at various levels of politics. The latter finds solutions in modifications of the capitalist system, and the former in the socialist…