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Lee A. Dew. The "Professional" Historian and Local History.
Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Spring, 1971), pp. 167-175. Back | Original Document Lee A. Dew worked for forty years teaching history at Kentucky Wesleyan College until his retirement in 1994.i It is often commented that Queensland history has parallels socially and culturally with the history of…
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Jan Palmowski. Liberalism and Local Government in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany and England.
The Historical Journal, Vol. 45, No. 2 (Jun., 2002), pp. 381-409. Back | Original Document In the above reading Taksa challenges the employment of social value from ideas of class conflict, in this reading Palmoswski demonstrates the challenge to social value from the other side of the political spectrum. In Australia there has been a…
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J.A. Raftis. British Historiography Decentralizes.
Journal of British Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Nov., 1969), pp. 143-151. Back | Original Document From this reading we get a sense of how far behind Queensland has been in historiographical developments when Raftis declares as the opening line: “One of the most remarkable features of the British historical scene since World War II…
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Hal K. Rothman. Environmental History and Local History.
History News, Vol. 48, No. 6 (November/December 1993), pp. 8-9. Back | Original Document By the early 1990s the synergy between local history and environmental history had become well-established in places like the United States. As is seen in the East reading, at that time, the concept of local environmental history had existed for more…
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H. P. R. Finberg. Recent Progress in English Agrarian History.
Geografiska Annaler, Vol. 43, No. 1/2, Morphogenesis of the Agrarian Cultural Landscape: Papers of the Vadstena Symposium at the XIXth International Geographical Congress (1961), pp. 75-79. Back | Original Document One of the shortcomings in the early British model was its focus on agrarian communities. Ideas of urban development were treated with disdain, and as…
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Don McNeil. The Why of Local History.
Don McNeil. The Why of Local History. The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Summer, 1955), pp. 245-247. Back | Original Document The earliest reading in the list asks straight up about the value in local history. McNeil warns of the problem in local history, where a host of different projects become ends…
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Carol Kammen. On Doing Local History: In Memoriam: Quite a Decade (Prelude and Postscript).
History News, Vol. 66, No. 4 (Autumn 2011), pp. 3-4. Back | Original Document In film and television the portrayal of community histories of New York looms very large in our hip-hop early 21st century consciousness. It is a fascinating place because it is at once a global city and a city of a thousand…
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Carol Kammen. On Doing Local History in New York.
The Public Historian, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 58-69. Back | Original Document We think of New York as a global city, and that is an historical truism well-established, but it is equally true that the world city has been a notable place for the local history tradition. Enshrined in legislation, as far…
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Bruce Sinclair. Local History and National Culture: Notions on Engineering Professionalism in America.
Technology and Culture, Vol. 27, No. 4, Special Issue: Engineering in the Twentieth Century (Oct., 1986), pp. 683-693. Back | Original Document Engineering is as a technical a field as you could get, and not a discipline that one normally associates with public-orientated local history. Nevertheless, such a perception is misleading. In recent years Engineering…
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Local History and Value
Local Hisotry Value An Annotated Bibliography The…