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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…
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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…